T. S. Eliot Quotes
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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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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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.
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The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
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I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
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I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
