George S. Clason Quotes
Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
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Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
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What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
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My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.
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People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.
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I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.
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All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
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It is my job to step into different characters.
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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
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I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
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Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.
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When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
