Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
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I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.
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We left Germany when I was 11.
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Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
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It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
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I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
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I definitely am a ritualistic person.
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Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'
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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
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For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
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I'm an old-timey gal.
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I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.
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Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
