Arthur Helps Quotes
Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
