Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.
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I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
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Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.
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I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.
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What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
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I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.
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I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.
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War is not civilized.
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I try to drink a lot of water and always moisturize. When my skin gets cranky, I use Proactiv to keep it clear. That stuff really works.
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
