Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
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You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
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My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
