William Gilmore Simms Quotes
Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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From virtue all happy states arise.
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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
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Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are
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In football, physical condition is very important, but the head is the most important thing. If you don't have the head, if the mentality is not good, then you are in trouble.
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Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
