Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.
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I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.
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The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
