Gertrude Bell Quotes
I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.
