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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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 always do my interviews face to face.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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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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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
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I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'.
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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.
