T. S. Eliot Quotes
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
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Some people have called the book the 'bible of software engineering'. I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.
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I've got quite an old-fashioned figure. Back in the Sixties, girls had boobs, a tummy and wide hips, and bigger thighs as well. I think that's sexy - to me, that's what a woman looks like. I've got love handles - sometimes they're passion handles! I'm built for comfort, not for speed, and I like that about myself.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
