Persons Quotes
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Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
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I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
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I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.
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To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.
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How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
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A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.
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I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.
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You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.
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Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
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Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.
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At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
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If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?
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You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
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The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
