Alexander Pope Quotes
On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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The media is controlled.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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'Flotsam floats when all is sunk. Jetsam thrown isn't just junk. Coughs and colds and bright red sores Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!'
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
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The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
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May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
