Talulah Riley Quotes
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently moves as you or I.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
