Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
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I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
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How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?
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True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
