J. L. Austin Quotes
Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
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I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
