I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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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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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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