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There's really nothing wrong with what I do. I act. I create a character. And I bring an awful lot of people an awful lot of joy.


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VINCENTE MINNELLI There's not an awful lot I can do about it,
BILL WILLIS I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
LALLA WARD Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
THE WIZARD OF OZ I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
EDDIE BRACKEN I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
JOHN DENVER To see this happen this way, it's just been almost beyond the pale. I know he shoulders an awful lot...
ORRIN HATCH I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful.
ELENA ROGER I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
NOLAN BUSHNELL An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot ...
BILL BRYSON I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
MICKEY SPILLANE An awful lot of countries were making an awful lot of money while people were suffering in Iraq. The...
CARNE ROSS Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?
L. FRANK BAUM I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
DAVID BOWIE For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
DOMINIC WEST I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --De...
JEFF LINDSAY How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
I don't know, but some people without brains do an...
L. FRANK BAUM I just fell apart. I turned to drugs and did an awful lot of cocaine, which I no longer do... I gave...
ANDY GIBB I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the oc...
JAMES CAMERON I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.
LOU GEHRIG I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot ...
IAIN GLEN I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
TYRONE POWER They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get an...
ADAM GARCIA But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
PATRICK MACNEE I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH As far as a camera store goes, they're phasing out an awful lot of what we do.
JOEL BRANN I share a lot of the concerns that I hear and I've read about. In a very short period of time, there...
DEBORAH TATE I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expect...
JANE PAULEY This year I realized I've got an awful lot on my plate. We are so busy that it's an awful lot to han...
DUB HUCKABEE It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awfu...
CHARLIE WATTS We lost an awful lot of men due to diarrhea and dysentery. I weighed 97 pounds when I got out of the...
FRANK MEZZATESTA You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA And they got an awful lot of second shots.
MIKE BREY I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, wit...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of...
CHRIS MARTIN There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. N...
ZENDAYA People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh...
TERRY ANDERSON I really didn't want to be a singer; of course, for a six year old in England during the war, there ...
PETULA CLARK Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.
JANE GOLDMAN People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because ...
DANA PLATO An awful lot of them used too much CoolWhip,
ANNE BYRN We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
BILL BRUFORD There's an awful lot of excitement about exchange stocks.
JAMIE SELWAY It really needs an awful lot of work. I'm not going to let go of it.
ED HARRISON They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn'...
ADAM GARCIA An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.
ELIZABETH DAVID There's an awful lot of M&A going on, and they will do very well out of it.
CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH I was very pleased with our performance tonight. I thought we were very sharp and created an awful l...
MARK KRIKORIAN For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.
SHAH RUKH KHAN I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a l...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT An awful lot of men like babies too and people generally respond warmly to family pictures.
MALCOLM BRUCE There's an awful lot of fall merchandise still out there.
ANNE BROUWER We've got an awful lot of stuff to cram in.
JIM CALHOUN There's an awful lot of talent not being tapped into.
DONNA BRADLEY It looks to me like we're spending an awful lot of money per vaccinated American and an awful low am...
LAURIE GARRETT The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate ...
IAN MCKELLEN It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an ...
FRANK VAVALA It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of...
SIENNA MILLER My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN He's putting a marker down that an awful lot of his colleagues have been unwilling to do.
NORM ORNSTEIN There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a par...
STEVE LACY There was an awful lot of turnovers by two young teams.
DALLAS DAVIS I think he has an awful lot to offer - I wouldn't have re-signed him recently on a longer term contr...
MICK MCCARTHY The flood risk has receded, but there is an awful lot of clearing up to do.
FRANZ MAERKI An awful lot of people are very upset with us, and we've got to do whatever we can to reduce taxes a...
ALAN WOOD I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON There's an awful lot of people that still haven't gotten into the category and we ask ourselves the ...
ANDREW BLACK I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
TYRONE POWER I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-make...
JANE GOODALL Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor,...
MICHAEL MULLEN I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON We know an awful lot about the history of water on Mars,
BRUCE JAKOSKY We just have an awful lot of projects that we are facing,
JEAN GODDEN There's an awful lot of high rollers who blew their wad last time. I know there aren't nearly as man...
HUGO PAPSTEIN An awful lot of the same kind of thinking appliers to other sports,
MICHAEL LEWIS I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and ob...
BERNARD GOLDBERG I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there...
STEVEN MOFFAT It really was an awful, awful environment,
JUSTIN HAWKINS There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
KURT VONNEGUT I was looking at the stats (from 2004). And there were an awful lot of kills we're going to need to ...
BOB ROGERS It's a pretty cerebral play. There's an awful lot of passion and emotion, but where it really pays o...
JOSEPH MCGRATH That meant I could go home at night, ... Doing stand-up comedy, you're on the road an awful lot.
BOB NEWHART She taught me an awful lot about the clouds.
CECILIA MRUK I had asked my body to go through an awful lot, and it had come through with flying colors, and I di...
ANN JILLIAN I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who ab...
KATE WINSLET I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful ...
FRANK DEFORD I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Cra...
AMANDA DONOHOE It's one of the high points of my life. It means an awful lot.
PAUL EITEL I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I...
ANOUSKA HEMPEL It started out as a fun thing. But it's attracting an awful lot of attention.
BOB BERNSTEIN The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend o...
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, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 ...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.
, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
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LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
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LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
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LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
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LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
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LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD