Jack London Quotes
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Quotes to Explore
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
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Every role is a challenge.I want to keep doing everything I want to try to do things that aren't similar to one another.
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I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
