Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
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I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.
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With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
