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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You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
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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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It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
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I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
