Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves Quotes
To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
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Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.
