Phillips Brooks Quotes
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
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A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).
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Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page in the German and British academic tradition.
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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
