Washington Allston Quotes
Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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Lehi was not a part of the Zionist movement, not a part of the Revisionist Party. It was sometimes something apart, and Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East... and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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Conservatism: Our revolutionary message … is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.
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I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
