Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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I'm not a negative person.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.
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Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
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You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.
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Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.
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The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
