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  • Daniel Day Lewis You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film, you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
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  • Adam Baldwin You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Buck Owens You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Dale Carnegie You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bobby Orr You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • William Hogarth You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
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  • George Mcgovern You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again
    Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • James Thurber You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Brett Hoebel You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Carol Shields You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Paul R. Scheele You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing.
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  • Ernest Hemingway You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jane Austen An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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