George Washington Quotes
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. 'If there is any one secret of success,' says Henry Ford, 'it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.'
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
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But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.
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I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.
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The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.
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I've just seen it on TV and in pictures.
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The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.
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I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
