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A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
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A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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