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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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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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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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 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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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.
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Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.
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It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.
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Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
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Everybody cares about their own, but Pittsburghers love and embrace them in a way I've never seen before, ... Dave's strong faith and integrity resonates extremely well in this community. He's forged in steel.
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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
