Lillie Langtry Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
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Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
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I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.
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The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.
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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
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Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
