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104297 quotes by 24588 authors
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I…
— Amy Adams
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after…
— Amy Adams
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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me.…
— Amy Adams
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One is born to be a great dancer.
— George Balanchine
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in…
— Emily Greene Balch
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I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
— Alec Baldwin
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Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point.…
— Amy Adams
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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In…
— Alec Baldwin
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am…
— Daniel Baldwin
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced…
— James A. Baldwin
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
— James A. Baldwin
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
— James A. Baldwin
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that…
— James A. Baldwin
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
— James A. Baldwin
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