Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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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 don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush -
Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
Rand Paul -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
Ted Sarandos
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
Laura Dern -
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim -
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung -
I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
Sally Field -
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
Patricia Marx -
I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
Jackie Robinson
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot -
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde -
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Og Mandino -
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray -
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Kacy Catanzaro
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Almost every faith can point to its rejoicing martyrs.
John Tyndall -
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Oswald Chambers -
Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
Harold Bloom -
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.