Louise Brooks Quotes
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
