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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I've always been extremely physically active.
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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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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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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 don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
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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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I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even when I was in the state legislature, the most important function we had was to pass the bloody budget.
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Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
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For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
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Civilizations, both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time.
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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
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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.
