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I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.
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The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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I hate the fact that people can judge based on something that isn't fully given to them. Like, this isn't the full product.
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Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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Larry David is such an incredible talent.
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If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.
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I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.
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Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυςἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.
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I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise to wait until marriage to have sex because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.
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But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!
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I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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I'm a very private person.
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I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.
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The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
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We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.
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If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.
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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
