“One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 169 of 303
“If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.”
“A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.”
“Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.”
“There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.”
“Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.”
“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”
“I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.”
“Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.”
“You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you're going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They're going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.”
“My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.”
“They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.”
“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”
“You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.”
“Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.”
“To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.”
“There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?”
“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.”
“~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~”
“Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.”