I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
#quotes #tony-kaye #time #future

A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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