Lord Byron Quotes
I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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But I think we need the international market.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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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 people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I've been training quite hard.
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The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can't get off the train, and the whole experience is painful.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.
