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		I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Morgan Freeman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Salmansohn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack LaLanne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Sheridan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harrison Salisbury 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wallace Shawn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Viggo Mortensen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Albert Schweitzer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sarah Dessen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul Gauguin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabby Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beatrice Webb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Morgan Freeman