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To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
Jonathan Frid

Truth, Friend, Person

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.
LL Cool J

Work, Different, Enjoy

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Jeanette Winterson

Life, Yourself, Hard

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

Good, Learning, Brain

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.
Brett Favre

Time, Wife, Hard

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
Henri Bergson

Body, Movement, Images

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
Alison Sweeney

Love, Music, Work

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
Gary Numan

Time, Nice, Someone

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
Jonathan Sacks

Power, Technology, Help

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann

Beauty, Poetry, Solitude

My sister is a masseuse, so we trade - she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It's a great system I'd recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills.
Giada De Laurentiis

Great, Friend, Give

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
Iain Duncan Smith

Life, Work, Age

I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith

Whatever, Involved, Figure

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
Iain Duncan Smith

After, Personal, View

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
Tracey Ullman

Child, Makes, Open

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
Elton John

Life, Love, Amazing

Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.
John Sununu

Down, Public, Debt

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.
Theresa May

Place, Learn, Once

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil

Time, Death, Become

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. James

God, Bird, Throw

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi

Fool, American, Himself

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
Ricky Martin

Power, Truth, Silence

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
Liz Phair

Work, Learning, Down

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Job, Actor

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
Chloe Sevigny

Love, Dreams, Stupid

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Chance, Act, Characters

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Feeling, Hunk, Annoys

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Work, True, Long

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Jane Campion

Freedom, Different, Short

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