Alistair Cooke Quotes
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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The genetic systems is not closed, therefore. The genes do not simply hold information without any reference to the body’s living system. It does not exist, then - the genetic structure - like some highly complicated mechanism already programmed, started and functioning blindly so that once it is set into operation there is no chance for modification.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
