Leigh Hunt Quotes

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

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• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Arts

• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

  

  E. B. White
  • Man
  • Planet
  • Club

• For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Women
  • Attitude

• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Body

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • True
  • Win

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Cool

• At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Should
  • Sexiness

• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Think
  • First
  • Very

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• You'd be so nice to come home to You'd be so nice by the fire...

  

  Cole Porter
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Fire

• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Men
  • Done
  • Character

• Cristiano Ronaldo has created his own story, and now I'm creating mine.

  

  Neymar

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
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