A. E. Housman Quotes
We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
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If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
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I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
