Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston -
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
Rand Paul -
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
Gary Sinise -
The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
Natalie Cole -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra -
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Oscar de la Renta
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Origen -
It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
Salman Khan -
I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
Felicity Jones -
The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
Sally Yates -
You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
Victoria Pendleton -
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
Abbe Pierre -
I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
Paloma Picasso -
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
Nancy Gibbs -
Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
Felicity Jones -
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
Gaby Hoffmann
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The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Margaret Halsey -
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
Anthony LaPaglia -
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala Harris -
Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
Samuel Johnson