"But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director."
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""It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given."
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"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."
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"Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?"
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"My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet."
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"What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life."
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"Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live."
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"I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish."
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"Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life."
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"Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither."
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"It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time."
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"Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given."
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"Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me"
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"Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living. And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it."
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"I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational."
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"On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for."
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"I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them."
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"Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts."
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"ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart."
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"I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse."
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