Yagyu Munenori Quotes
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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People trash talk me.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.
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It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.
