John Ruskin Quotes
At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
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Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.
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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
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"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
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At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
