Carl Honore Quotes
Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
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It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
