Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
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When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
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I think a lot of people get into what they're eating. Yes, it's important, but at some point, let's think about what we're feeling. It can become a control issue to control everything that you're eating and the exercise that you're doing. I think it's good to do a bit of everything, but to just notice how you're feeling when you wake up in the morning.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
