George Matthew Adams Quotes
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Be your own advocate.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.
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We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
