James Nasmyth Quotes
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
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In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.
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In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.
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The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
