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Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.


Antony Sher


#basic #bear #been #career #doing

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.


Matthew Prior


#divine #form #join #paint #semblance

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.


Galen Rowell


#biggest #biggest mistakes #cling #closer #film

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.


Lewis Thomas


#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.


Kirstie Alley


#children #give #had #hardest #having

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.


Ben Affleck


#bears #cocksure #described #feel #i

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.


Desiderius Erasmus


#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.


Leo Kottke


#anything #bear #because #find #guitar

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.


Michael Medved


#anything #complain #everybody #fix #loves

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.


Francoise Sagan


#between #found #hard #i #know






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