George Washington Quotes
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.
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The general market wants what I do.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).
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You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.
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I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
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Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
