Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Parenting is tough.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
