Cecil Beaton Quotes
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
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At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
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First you put in, then you get out.
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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...
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What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me "Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
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When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.
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The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
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I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
