Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends.
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Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
