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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I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.
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Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
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But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
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No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
