John Calvin Quotes
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.
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How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
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The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
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It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't be fully engaged in the conversation.
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It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.
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The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
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It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
