Fanny Burney Quotes
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
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Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
