Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
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I am just an ordinary Catholic.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
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It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
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I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.
