Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
It quieted pain and sorrow,Like love overcoming strife;It seemed the harmonious echoFrom our discordant life.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I would like to direct.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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I wanted to tell people you can live a full life, even if you're not feeling well.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
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If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
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It quieted pain and sorrow,Like love overcoming strife;It seemed the harmonious echoFrom our discordant life.
