Good Quotes
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
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Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.
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A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.
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There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.
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My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
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I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
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The fans have been really good to me. I thank everyone for all the support.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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There are days I like going out, and days I like to sit naked with the remote control on my thigh, watching 'Breaking Bad.' I'm in love with that TV show. And 'Louie' on FX. And 'The Newsroom' - well, I don't know if I like it, but I'm obsessed with it. It's so Sorkin-y. But I've got some friends on there, so it's good to support them.
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I love this little family-owned Italian spot called Tep's Villa Roma. It has good home-style food made with love and intention.
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If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
