Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I was a college student in 1989 when I participated in the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. I was one of the organizers.
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There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
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Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.
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I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
