"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."
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"... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service."
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"So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world."
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"I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself."
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"Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root."
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"I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me."
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"I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring."
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"It's funny how much one learns from context. Throughout that entire visit to Kenya, with all its meetings, there was an experience of the place that taught me things I couldn't learn by reading global newswires. The fact that I learned so much makes me wish that I could visit more places. So many of the zones, of course, are closed, so one knows about them only in secondhand ways. My research has only scratched the surface. There are thousands of zones around the world. There's just so much work to do."
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"I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling."
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"The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security in Europe, so that we do not face another world war."
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"The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision."
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"The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it."
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"This world is nothing except it tend to another."
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"The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour."
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"Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches)."
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"Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him."
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"Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind."
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"He that deales in the world needes foure seeves."
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"If you would bee at ease, all the world is not."
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"In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]"
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