Alexander Pope Quotes
Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
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I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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'An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.'
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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
