Lilli Palmer Quotes
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.
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I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.
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After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.
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Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
