William Shenstone Quotes

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William Shenstone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 18, 1714 - February 11, 1763

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Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

Andrea Martin

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There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

Anatoly Chubais

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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

John Oliver

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People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

Jeff Foxworthy

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When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.

Amish Tripathi

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My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Ron Reagan

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I was a purist bore.

Michael Parkinson

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I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'

Jay-Z

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You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

Jason Chaffetz

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I love to see people laugh and put a smile on peoples' faces. Anytime I'm doing that I'm happy.

Dexter Darden

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There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

Constance Wu

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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss

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