George Mason Quotes
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
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I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
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The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
