I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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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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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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