Samuel Johnson Quotes
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.
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I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage their suicidal thoughts and self-destructive behaviors, rather than on understanding the possible causes of their despair and helplessness. I was also struck by how little attention was paid to their accomplishments and aspirations; whom they cared for, loved, or hated; what motivated and engaged them, what kept them stuck, and what made them feel at peace—the ecology of their lives.
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Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
