I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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