Anthony Trollope Quotes
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.
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We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.
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No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
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Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
