"Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself."
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"The thing done avails, and not what is said about it."
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"The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done."
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"When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it."
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"One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself."
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"You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so."
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"The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed."
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"There's only the integrity of doing and having done."
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"Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it."
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"We're finding that very well-educated people, people who have done everything right, are behind, really behind. And they are hoping they can stay in the labor market, but a word that's used in other countries that isn't used here is very apt here."
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"I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film."
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"It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls."
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"Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design."
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"This world, where much is to be done and little to be known."
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"Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else."
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"There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance."
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"If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else."
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"I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot."
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"People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role."
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"For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him."
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