Edward Everett Quotes
When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
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It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.
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I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.
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I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
