Marian Seldes Quotes
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.
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This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
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If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
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Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
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You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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No one knows why books do well.
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He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
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Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.
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There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
