George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
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I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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There is no heaven like mutual love.
