Aesop Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
