Adrian Goldsworthy Quotes
Then as in so many periods, notoriety was more desirable for a politician than obscurity.
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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
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Thinking is more precious than all five senses.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
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No soul willfully does wrong.
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I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.
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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.
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But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
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Then as in so many periods, notoriety was more desirable for a politician than obscurity.
