Fred Astaire Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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I'm a competitor. Gym work can be tough. But you just try to get through it.
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
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Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
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I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
