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I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
Self-defence helps with your confidence, and if you ever find yourself in that type of situation, you are more physically capable.
even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
As a global company, we have abundant resources in both capable people and capacity and also competency to make a success in India.
It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.
I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
People are really capable if you're able to give them the confidence to get something done and paint the picture of where we need to go.
I can change my mind and can learn other things. And anything I don't know, I'm capable of learning if I so desire or if it's necessary.
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.'
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
I knew from being pregnant that you can be very strong. You're still very capable. Especially if it was stuff you were able to do before.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of, and you have to not care.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.
I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'
In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.
Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate well.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out.
I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.
Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'
What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.
Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.