W. E. B. Griffin (William Edmund Butterworth III) Quotes
Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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I love creative people.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.
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A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.
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I don't know how I could plan my career.
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My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries.
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Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
