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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Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.
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I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
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I was a stage-struck kid.
