James Nasmyth Quotes
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
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I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.
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I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.
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The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
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Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.
