Joseph Addison Quotes
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
Jackson Brundage
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
Wallace Shawn
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
Natalie Coughlin
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
Gary Neville
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
Eddi Reader
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted Engstrom
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Kate Brown
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
Waris Ahluwalia
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Edmund White
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
Eric Ladin
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
R. C. Sproul
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
Tacitus
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Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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This kind of day Has no night Ain't got much on my mind Ain't got much on my mind 'Cause I know Something good this way comes.
Jakob Dylan
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
Joseph Addison