Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

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• I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  

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• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  

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• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

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• I get to meet different directors and different people.

  

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• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

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• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

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• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

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• My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

  

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• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

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• The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

  

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

  

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• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

  

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• The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.

  

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• I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.

  

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• On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together.

  

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• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

  

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• Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

  

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• What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

  

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• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  

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• I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Joy
  • Plan