James Whistler Quotes
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
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I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports.
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I think was able to do a lot of things here.
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'I will not beg your forgiveness,' she said. Only her voice betrayed her fear; it was not its usual strong, clear tone. 'I did what I felt was right.''Of course you did,' I said. 'It was the wise thing to do.'
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The dog looked up through its hairy yashmak and farted.
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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I was always the classroom clown, and the teachers allowed me a certain latitude. The assemblies were good, and the headmaster used to tell little stories; I loved the idea of communal storytelling.
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I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
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You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
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Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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And now in one hour's time I'll be out there again. I'll raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.
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I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
