Ben Jonson Quotes
Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
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What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
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Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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Dry deliveries. That helps when I get the ball back in my hand - like I never really stopped throwing. The goal for me is to increase arm strength.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
