J. B. Priestley Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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I love to fly so much.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
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I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.
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Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
