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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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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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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A little bit of sun does wonders! With good protection, of course. Vitamin D is just so good for your hair and your nails. I also love coconut water and coconut oil from Whole Foods. It's amazing. You can cook with it, shower with it... you come out of the shower like a slippery seal, but it works.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
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The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.
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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
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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.
