Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It takes heart to be in political life.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
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Omnia qua propter debent per inane quietumaeque ponderibus non aequis concita ferri.
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'A pig is a pig,' said the stranger, 'and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.'
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Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.
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Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
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When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.
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My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
