A. A. Milne Quotes
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
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When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
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I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
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Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
