O. Henry Quotes
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
