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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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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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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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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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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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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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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We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.
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I'd like to be very wise.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
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People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.
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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.
