Daniel Finkelstein Quotes
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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Heroes can be sweet.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.
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This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
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There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.
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I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
