Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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