Lily Collins Quotes
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Music has always been really important to me.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland;Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)
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Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
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Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'
