Anthony Trollope Quotes
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.
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I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
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I think that the power of reinvention is very important.
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
