Thomas Carlyle Quotes
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
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If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
