Phillips Brooks Quotes

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

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• I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Work Hard

• I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Role
  • Genre

• 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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

  

  Wayne White
  • Purpose
  • Leave
  • Drive

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Political
  • Air

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • End

• I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Country

• As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Life
  • Learning
  • New Things

• 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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.

  

  Sam Altman
  • May
  • Star
  • Rewards

• I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Bad

• 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).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Horse

• Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.

  

  Olof Palme

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Single
  • German

• What is your sex's earliest, latest care,Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

  

  Vanity
  • Heart
  • Sex
  • Ambition

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Dream
  • Song

• It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Education
  • Present

• I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Fun

• I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Forest

• Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

  

  Phillips Brooks