Alfred Austin Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
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I'm always amazed when anybody remembers anything of my work, and even more so when I get nominated for something I've done. For many years, I was like a horse wearing a pair of blinkers as far as using these awards or nominations in order to boost my career was concerned.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
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Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
