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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Author: Ellen Barkin
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Author: Robert Bresson
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Author: John Anster
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Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Author: Al Batt
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One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Author: Ernest Bramah
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Author: Barbara De Angelis
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Author: Arnold Bennet
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Author: Taylor Benson
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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Author: Francisco D'anconia
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Author: Henry Fielding
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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Author: Anandabai Joshee
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.
Author: Rose F. Kennedy
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Author: Thomas E. Lawrence
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Author: Robert Leighton
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Author: William R. Alger
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Author: George Chapman
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When in doubt, don't.
Author: Saul W. Gellerman
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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Author: Earl Of Arran
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Author: Jacqueline Bisset
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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
Author: George D. Boardman
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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Author: Marva Collins
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For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Author: Christian Lacroix
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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Author: Eric Butterworth
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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
Author: Brigham Young Fun
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As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.
Author: A. H. Euwer
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It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
Author: James Fenton
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
Author: Norman Angell
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Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Author: Bioleau
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Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Author: Gene Brown
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
Author: James Freeman Clarke
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Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.
Author: Rabino Nilton Bonder
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My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
Author: Noel Coward
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Author: Francis Beaumont
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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
Author: Francis Yeats Brown
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Author: William Cowper
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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
Author: Jack Kuehler
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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Author: Newton D. Baker
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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Author: Tony Buzan
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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
Author: Cathy Lee Crosby
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Author: Lord Dunsany
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
Author: Eva Figes
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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.
Author: Ching-an
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Author: Herbert Clark Hoover
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
Author: Paul Keating
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