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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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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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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After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
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Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.
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Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
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Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.
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It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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Both of my parents are actors, so I grew up backstage with them. I would see some of their shows 30, 40, 50 times. I would have it all memorized. I loved it.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
