Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
Eddie Marsan -
I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
Nathan Lane -
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben -
I bought a girl roses once.
Cameron Dallas -
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King -
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
Carlene Carter
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
Paige VanZant -
My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
Magic Johnson -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
Patrick Macnee -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
Larry Bishop -
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Babyface -
I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
Ted Sarandos -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
Rakul Preet Singh -
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
Larry David -
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
Stephen Rodrick -
Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I'll start with small things.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli