"There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers."
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"When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with your money."
"Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created."
"When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that."
"I was always a very happy, optimistic person."
"The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person."
"The person who fails the most wins."
"I enjoy sports in person."
"Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person."
"If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something."
"Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself."
"I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems."
"Meditation means seeing God within you, and love is seeing God in the person next to you."
"If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know."
"I have always voted for who I believed was the best person."
"Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance."
"What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you"
"A person can't change all at once."
"You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said."
"Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest."