Plato Quotes
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.
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A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
