Edward Lear Quotes
They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
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I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!
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When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.
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Ever since I got back surgery, everything in my life has been about reduction. I've got the lightest backpack I can carry and the lightest MacBook.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.
