William Hurrell Mallock Quotes
If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
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Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
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I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
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I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.
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I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
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I think it's important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
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If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
