For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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