Jane Asher Quotes
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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My work... is my legacy.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
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An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
