Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Put the picture away or, preferably, send it back to me, dear Valentin. If people cannot understand it is based on their inner engagement with these matters, then there is no point in showing the thing at all.
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad... In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do.
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When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.
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I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
