Quintilian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
