Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Quotes to Explore
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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Don't waste your crazy!
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I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
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Its berries are red as a maiden's lip,Its leaves are of changeless green ;And any thing changeless now, I wis,Is somewhat rare to be seen.The holly, which fall and frost has borne,The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
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Waiting for the miracleThere's nothing left to do.I haven't been this happysince the end of World War II.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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'Pilar - remember - nothing is so boring as devotion.'
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We're comic book fans; we're huge NASCAR fans.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
