Rudyard Kipling Quotes
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
