Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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If you're in a commercial studio, you've got to be out by the end of the day, and it can be paralyzing, but if you have your own studio you move fast because you don't care. If you don't care, you can be patient, and also think fast.
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He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running. He closed his eyes.
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.
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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
