Geraldine Jewsbury Quotes
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
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Jack Reacher stayed alive, because he got cautious. He got cautious because he heard an echo from his past. He had a lot of past, and the echo was from the worst part of it.
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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half brokenhearted,To sever for years.
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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.
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My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.
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I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.
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Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
