Ben Jonson Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
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A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.
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Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
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My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
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After Le Havre, I became the youngest player in the first division in Reunion. I made my debut at 16. That's how I got spotted by Nantes.
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I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
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Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.
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Cause the boyz in da hood are always hard, Keep fuckin with us and we'll pull yo' card knownin nothin in life but to be legit don't quote me boy cause I aint said shit.
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I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.
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Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
