William Gurnall Quotes
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I am a contrarian.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
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Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
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I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
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The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.
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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
