Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
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  • School
  • Family

• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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  • Mind
  • Bad

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
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  • Bad
  • Hell

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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  • Great
  • Movie

• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Research

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
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  • Done

• You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Good
  • Day
  • Morning

• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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  • Evil

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
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• I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • America
  • Old

• Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
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  • Unknown

• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• I am the drop that contains the ocean

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Ocean
  • Drop
  • Contains

• When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
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