John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.
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Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.
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The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
