Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The khaleesi seems the most fair.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
