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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.
If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.
I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.
Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.
The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.
I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.
If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.
If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.
I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.
I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.
I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.
Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.
You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.
Just because I made it look easy doesn't mean that it was and you don't work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out.
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.