Elizabeth Inchbald Quotes
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'
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Zu unserer Besserung bedürfen wir eines Spiegels.
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
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True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
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I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.
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I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
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Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.
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But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
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I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.
