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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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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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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When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.
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Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.
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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.
