B. C. Forbes Quotes
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.
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The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!
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A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
