Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
Eddie Redmayne
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
Felicia Day
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
Ram Dass
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We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.
Xenophon
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My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.
Sally Phillips
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.
Lord Byron
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
David Markson
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli