Colin Firth Quotes
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov -
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
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I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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Brother, sister, only words; but this, a reality, a destroyer at the gate. What could it have mattered, after all, to celebrate her hungry youth, and his, before the sword fell on her? All the plots and schemes, the moralities and codes of men, seemed dust in the face of death.
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All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.
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Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.
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I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.
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Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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I just think about what I am doing on my side of the net, which requires focus. Even after all the years I've been playing, I still get butterflies before each match.
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To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
