Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Advanced Courses are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent … There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.
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Spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love.
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I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.
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I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
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Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.
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Marvel is obviously a giant, global super-brand, so being a part of that is exciting because of the huge built-in audience and the appetite for it.
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Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.
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I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway
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This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.
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And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
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'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.
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Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
