Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I want to invest in a functional product that people are using.
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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
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I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
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No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
