Jane Austen Quotes
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.Jane Austen
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
Maggie Q -
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
Omari Hardwick -
I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
Zoe McLellan -
I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
T. C. Boyle -
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
Felicity Jones -
The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
Wanda Sykes -
I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
Victor Cruz -
My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
Dan Rather -
A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
Randall Terry
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No one is ever ordinary.
Tanith Lee -
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
Raha Moharrak -
Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
Naomi Campbell -
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
Samantha Morton -
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston Bachelard -
How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart
Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
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I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.
Steven Soderbergh -
I'm putting jobs over ideology.
Stephen Fincher -
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant -
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis of Assisi -
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Sarah Bernhardt -
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen