Lily King Quotes
I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.
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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
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Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.
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A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.
