Max Beerbohm Quotes
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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I just can't read music.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
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If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.
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A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.