Adam Smith Quotes
The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.

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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
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All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl's attention is to start a conversation.
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The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.