Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is such a nice guy.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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A crown and justice? Night and day Shall first be yoked together.
