Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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My acting gives me my self-worth.
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I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.
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If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.
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what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
