Herbert Kaufman Quotes
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
