Charles Spurgeon Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
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When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next Lisa Leslie.
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I was a tomboy growing up, so I think I naturally take on a little male swagger.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.
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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
