Alexander Pope Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.
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Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
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Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!
