Lord Melbourne Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
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I should have been kinder when I was younger.
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Never once was it said I was disappointed Peyton didn't win us more than one championship.
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I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
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When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
