Anthony Trollope Quotes
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I have no guitar technique.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.
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I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
