Vanity Quotes
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
Quotes to Explore
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
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The Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter):And even if the world should end tomorrowI still would plant my little apple-tree.Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.
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When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I’m a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Attitude.
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Toni: Well... straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!Clarice: You mean...Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!
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We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
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That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
