Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.
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I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
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When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.
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Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
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We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
