Edward Smith Quotes
Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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Venus favors the bold.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.
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I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment.
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Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)
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The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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I wanted to hang on to all that tradition; I wasn’t going to leave anything behind. It was important for me to be grounded, and I also was building the farm up. My socialism and the peace group all linked in with my Methodism.
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Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
