Ben Jonson Quotes
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I think celebrities suck.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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You can cycle through town and nobody shouts, 'look, it's the Princess' – they are used to seeing us. Some people come up and say hello and that's fine. It's no big deal.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
