Clement Attlee Quotes
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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Being evil is easy.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.
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An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.
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The Old School Tie can still be seen on the Government benches.
