Baldassare Castiglione Quotes
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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I suppose I've been interested in Abraham Lincoln for almost as long as I can remember. My first Lincoln book was the Classics Illustrated comic book version of the life of Lincoln, and with that, I was hooked.
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I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet,Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go wrong;I know it hurts to have to take defeatAn' no one likes to lose before a throng;It isn't very pleasant not to winWhen you have done the very best you could;But if you're down, get up an' buckle in-A lickin' often does a fellow good.
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Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.
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I think we have to look at, you know, many issues. And first of all, we have to reach a consensus on the level of urgency and the magnitude of the problem before we develop a long-term solution.
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Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
