George Grenville Quotes
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
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It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
