G. H. Hardy Quotes
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
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I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.
