W. C. Brownell Quotes
Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
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I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
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Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
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Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
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I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
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My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
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Don't believe everything you think - or feel.
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The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'
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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
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'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'
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Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.
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Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.
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Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
