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"There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that."
"If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid."
"It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program."
"I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him."
"You're trying to just leave the world a little better."
"It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that."
"It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."
"Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again."
"He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing."
"We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive."
"The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family."
"If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed."
"When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain."
"One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain."
"The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians."
"To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo."
"There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead."
"Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance."
"I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies."
"When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately."
