Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
Quotes to Explore
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
