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Alec Guinness quote: "Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to..."

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

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What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been. Joyce Carol Oates
Jane Austen quote: "for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most..."
for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. Jane Austen
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish. George Soros
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Beverly Cleary
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. Bjork
I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more. Hayden Fry
At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism. Donald Evans
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. Alain de Botton
John M. McHugh quote: "As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those..."
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. John M. McHugh
I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others. Lawrence Eagleburger
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages. Annie Lennox
G. Stanley Hall quote: "Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river..."
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. G. Stanley Hall
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. Erich Maria Remarque
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same. Jorge Luis Borges
Joshua Homme quote: "I'm not so much of a joiner."
I'm not so much of a joiner. Joshua Homme