William Adams Quotes

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

William Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 24, 1564 - May 16, 1620

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He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.

Johannes P. Muller

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I don't think men really fall in love with the outspoken girl.

Jennifer Coolidge

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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

John Sayles

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Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

Su-chin Pak

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A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Robert D. Kaplan

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With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

Judy Greer

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If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

Colm Meaney

CharacterEffortYouLookPerson

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

Bryan Fuller

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I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.

Peter Cullen

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Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.

Pete Hoekstra

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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

James McBride

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