Mark Twain Quotes

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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It`s not our conditions, but our decisions that shape our lives. I truly believe that it`s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. So choose carefully what things mean, and what to do about them. With conscious focus, a connection with our loving nature, and a desire to serve, we truly can experience heaven while still here on earth.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.