Ted Hughes Quotes
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
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Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
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I always breathe cricket.
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'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.
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And so to Mrs. Martin and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.
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'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'
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I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.
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When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
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Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.
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The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.
