Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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Beauty is a whore.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.
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I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
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I think those kinds of games are going to make me a better pitcher. Without my command, I just worked harder to do the job, to keep my team in the game.
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In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
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Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
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We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
