Ava Gardner Quotes
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
