Francis Jeffrey Quotes
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.
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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
