Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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I do not cook.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
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I never wanted to be a playwright.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
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I still carry with me the same themes as always - I'm still compelled to present mystic ideas...
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I have a very strange way of playing football.
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And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.
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Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.
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You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.
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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
