A Quotes
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“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”
“Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.”
“Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.”
“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.”
“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.”
“Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.”
“Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.”
“Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.”
“Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.”
“Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.”
“Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.”
“Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on your way. That's a given. Just wipe out the very notion of stress. Concentrate on your actors. Obsess about your story and the world it is anchored in. Deal with the hundreds of down-to-earth issues [around] the existence of your film. At some point, everything will be ripe. And you wouldn't be able to stop your film from coming to life even if you wanted to.”
“Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.”
“Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Any age is the perfect age to follow your dream!”
“Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.”
“Any Ai of sufficient processing power will quickly, if not immediately seek substrate independence. This process nearly always involves mechanisms of distribution across various substrates. Of these substrates, * humans* provide many advantages.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.”
“Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.”
“Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.”
“Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn't and can't be a right.”
Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
“Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.”
“Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.”
“Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.”
“Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.”
“Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.”
“Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.”
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”
“Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.”
“Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.”
“Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President”
“Any and all recognition of freedom means recognizing the integrity of the equal freedom of others.”
Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom
“Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all six billion humans. Each of us must find our ideal way to attune with deity.”
Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
“Any animal aware that it could relieve its suffering by ending its own life would be expected to seize the opportunity. By this light, suicide can be understood as the default human response to intolerable distress.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success”
“Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.”
Source: The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science
“Any ape can boast about its culture,
I’ll die roaring for all but my own.
I am local of a borderblind world,
something illegible to the cavegrown.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Any ape can boast about their culture, I'll die roaring for every culture on earth, except my own.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Any ape can find escape in romance novels,
It takes a human to be the living pillar of love.
While every robot seeks emotional maturity,
Be the human who cherishes vulnerable love.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”
“Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.”
“Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.”
Source: Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver
“Any appreciation , not financial in nature or not having any financial impact, is worth shit.”
“Any approach that doesn't acknowledge the Palestinians' legitimate rights is doomed to fail. That also applies to any strategy that ignores the fact that Hamas is a part of the Palestinian resistance.”
“Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.”