Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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I was always quite outspoken as a teenager and quite cheeky in school and stuff.
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The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
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It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
