Jane Austen Quotes
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I'm a big softie.
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'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
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It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
