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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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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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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India is a fertile ground for entrepreneurs, given its large pool of world-class talent and resources. India's ability to generate wealth and create social good will come if we let entrepreneurs flourish by encouraging and enabling innovation.
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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
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I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.
