J. B. Priestley Quotes
I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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The most important metrics are did we execute the way in which we said we would, and did we deliver the value to the business that we had promised?
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.
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In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.
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I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
