Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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I don't judge my characters.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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All comes out even at the end of the day.
