Edward Lear Quotes
Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
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The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.
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My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!
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When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
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Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.
