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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So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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.
