T. S. Eliot Quotes
It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
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Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small parts, only small actors' is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in 'Who was that guy from that thing' purgatory - however, '90s sitcom 'Friends' proved that the saying is true.
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True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.
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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
