George Cukor Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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This sort of admission of error, of change, makes us trust a critic as nothing else but omniscience could...
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the 'self'-the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head-is an illusion.
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If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.
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What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.
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I was a stage-struck kid.
