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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
I just kept it off social media for the most part, put my head down, and went to work. I lived in the gym.
As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I'm among good company.
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
It was really important that 'Dream' kept the balance of strength and total vulnerability - which was my exact headspace when it was being written.
I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.
He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination
Cooking used to be the one thing that kept my mind exactly where my body was. It's a sign of growing up that I can do that other ways now.
I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.
Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.
He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
There were different moments where I was like, "Okay, this is who I am today." But, when I'm kept on my toes, I'm having the best time of my life.
But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.
I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds.
Back in 2008, nobody wanted to listen to or play my music. They called it trance. There was no market for it, but I just kept going.
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
When I stopped racing, I kept being asked to comment on diversity in the sport but I really felt I had done my part.
I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!
But I think I made the right move to leave Chelsea behind. They kept sending me on loan to get more experience.
I suffered a lot of criticism from the press and the fans, but I always kept motivating myself, working. I never dropped the shuttlecock.
My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.
When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me back.
Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!
This girl just kept staring at me, and I was like, 'What in the world is wrong with her?' That's when I knew, this YouTube thing is something.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.
I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.
