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The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey Irish Playwright

I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

Karrie Webb Australian Athlete

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard American Author

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Vladimir Kramnik Russian Celebrity

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

Marco Rubio American Politician

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

Michael Musto American Writer

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

Lee Hazlewood American Musician

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Joe Pantoliano American Actor

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Ashe American Athlete

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer English Lawyer

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Jean Stafford American Writer

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Aldrich Ames American Criminal

In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

Carl Wilson American Musician

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

Brian Celio American Novelist

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Carol Moseley Braun American Politician

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Meister Eckhart German Philosopher

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Carly Simon American Musician

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Sean Connery Scottish Actor

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Catherine Drinker Bowen American Writer

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Jacques Lacan French Psychologist