Conor Oberst Quotes
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
Kate Ashfield
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
Carey Mulligan
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
Gary Frank
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
Malorie Blackman
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
Talulah Riley
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Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
Zara Larsson
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
Patricia Cornwell
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For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.
Carla Hall
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This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
Gavin MacLeod
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Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.
David Suzuki
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I've woven them a garment that's prepared out of poor words, those that I overheard, and will hold fast to every word and glance all of my days, even in new mischance, and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout, then let them pray for me, as I do pray for them, this eve of my remembrance day.
Anna Akhmatova
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My life was ripped off!
Patty Duke
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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
Jimmy Breslin
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One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Ken Kesey
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I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
Conor Oberst
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