E. W. Howe Quotes
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.
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When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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We select our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our residences on the basis of a feeling that it 'looks well' to have a 'good address.' We trade in perfectly good cars for later models, not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can afford it.
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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
