Barbara Bush Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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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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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.
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The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
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Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
