Isaac Watts Quotes
It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
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In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
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I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time.
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
