George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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This is a free country, and to each their own.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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I wanted to update the American people on what we know about the situation in Japan, what we’re doing to support American citizens and the safety of our own nuclear energy, and how we are helping the Japanese people contain the damage, recover and rebuild.
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
