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In the anteroom of death.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells ...

I always say, 'What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?' And if it's too idiosyncratic, someone won't buy it and then it's a ...

Suddenly she longed for the comfort of books around her. No matter how bad she felt, a library could always make her feel better.

As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment.If he wanted us to work, after all,He would not have created this wine.With a ...

American society is still puritanical.

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.

No more Dane," he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. "I can't decide if that means you don't want me to ...

Goodnight, moon. Goodnight, stars. Goodnight planets, comets and... Mars. Yes, even you, Mars. And not only for the sake of the rhyme.

Everyone is dangerous in here, can't you see that?" he warned.

Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked ...

He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it ...

Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately ...

I felt shy looking at him. I could not match the intensity of his waterblue eyes.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for ...

There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.

Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around ...

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know ...

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.

The truth of the maxim that beauty lies between the extremities of order and complexity.

When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes.

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between ...

In existence; you are matter, form or body, Living from moment to moment in self-consciousness. When you become formless in pure consciousness; You dissolve into ...

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery ...

People give out compliments because it's polite.

We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally did and Mom was ferociously protective of the ...

I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply ...

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell ...

A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain ...

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Formula 1 racing had a personal scandal right up at the top of its governing body that was so weird, that was so flagrantly salacious ...

All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel. ...

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of ...

There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had, that ...

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within ...

Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth ...

Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever ...

I love you...and I'm sorry it took losing you to figure that out."His anger deflated. "Did you say you love me?"She nodded and tears dripped ...

You're not my first. You don't deserve that category. Being first means others will come after you-that we will eventually end. And we don't. You're ...

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels ...

I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike ...

Because you're well and truly in the closet at the back of the warehouse with the door shut, packaged up for some secure shipping container ...

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, ...

Ideas are nothing, doing is everything

No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.

To avoid being manhandled, as soon as the judge said, "Remove the defendant from the courtroom," i would say, "The defendant will remove herself." Most ...

Procrastination is failing to get on with life itself.

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common ...

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

A broken heart doesn't care if you run from it or not. Either way you take it with you.

He had never cared if his victims lived or died once he was through with them. But not her. He couldn't allow her to die. ...

One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, ...

I get my inspiration from young stylish girls I see all over my travels.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

Valium would have helped that bash.

As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.

No feeling is final.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women ...

I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. - Jude

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts ...

Restrictions create frustrations!

You know you've remade Jesus in your own image when he hates all the same people you hate!

Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield.

It's not a playoff game, it's like the Super Bowl. ... This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they're going ...

I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the ...

I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." ...

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we ...

There's no such thing as coincidences, only incidences with a twist.

In losing her he lost not merely his main source of companionship but also his primary adviser, whose observations he had found so useful in ...

Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.

Demolition derbyDuck tape works wonders

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, "Diable! Diable!" And then chants of some sort, ...

If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care ...

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.