Alan Paton Quotes
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
Quotes to Explore
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
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A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
