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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.
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I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.
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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
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Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you.
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II Podcast' has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode.
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What have you done today, to make you feel proud?
