Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.
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If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.
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I feel happy when I work. I don't care if tomorrow I will be fired.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
