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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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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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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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
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The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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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.
