Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?
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In life, we all learn from everyone.
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It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.
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Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
