William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
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Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.
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Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.
