William Thurston Quotes
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
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Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
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A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
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So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
