When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world. ~Michael Flatley
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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