Beatrice Webb Quotes
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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Free love sounds great.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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To study the meaning of man and of life - I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
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When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
