George Meade Quotes
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
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... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
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I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.
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My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
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I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
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The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.
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War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
