Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Brandon Lee Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Davison Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Billy Burke Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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  • Bernard Hill Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • David Grayson Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Angela Carter Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Robert Southey Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Helene Deutsch After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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