Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
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I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.
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It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.
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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
