Adele Quotes
I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
