Richard Adams Quotes
If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.
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I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.
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If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.