Queen Victoria Quotes
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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Someone once asked me what my working timetable was like and when was the last time I went on a holiday. I said about 20 years back. I don’t work anymore, because I get paid to do what I like most. So it’s like a paid holiday.
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Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.
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Qué te he dado, lo sé. Qué has recibido, no lo sé.
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My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
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People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
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Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
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I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
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I smile a lot in my real life.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
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We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
