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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After over 50 years of headlining, I've been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you're onstage, you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's OK.
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I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.
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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.
