Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
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Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
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Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.
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We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
