Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
