Ovid Quotes
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
