Hopkins Quotes

• Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Grief, Losing Everything

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

  Katie Hopkins

  Ebola, Bombs, Offensive

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2014

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• My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

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• I love life because what more is there?

  Anthony Hopkins

  Love, Life, Insperational

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  We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life, Thinking, Dying Slowly

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• I have desired to go
  Where springs not fail,
  To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
  And a few lilies blow.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Spring, Blow, Lilies

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fun, Mean, Dark

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream

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• Glory be to God for dappled things.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Trout, Moles, Glory

  "Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

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• Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Lonely, Children, Home

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• I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sunrise, Desert, Pages

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn.
  What would the world be, once bereft
  Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
  O Let them be left, wildness and wet:
  Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Weed, Nature, Long

  1881 'Inversnaid'.

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• I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Blessed, Writing, Play

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  I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Workout, Lying, Glasses

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• The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Study, Admire, Masterpiece

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

  Anthony Hopkins

  School, Promise, Acting

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• We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Atheist, Believe

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• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hogwash, Sentimental, Nonsense

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• Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thankful, Mean, Things In Life

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.832, Simon and Schuster

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• Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Light, Richness Of Life, Imperfection

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Childhood, Three

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• For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Lakes, Skulls

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