Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.
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When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.
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There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.
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When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
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Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
