Eliza Acton Quotes
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets.
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The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
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I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really good for me. I need to work on my movement and my finishing, but seeing these guys on a regular basis gives me a benchmark.
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I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
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I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.
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Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.
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People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
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The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.
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I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
