Arthur Bloch Quotes
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.
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I don't do social media.
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Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!
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When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
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Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.
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Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.
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We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
