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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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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