Quintilian Quotes
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
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I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
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We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.
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You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
