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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.


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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.



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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.



A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.



By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.



Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.



Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.



Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.



They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.



No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.



The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.





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But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.



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If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.



Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.



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Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.



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But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.



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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.



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Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.



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How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.



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Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.



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