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“Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.”

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Author:Willem Dafoe

“I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.”

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Author:Laura Linney

“It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."”

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Author:Tom Felton

“I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.”

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Author:Julianne Hough

“I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.”

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Author:Jay Cassidy

“Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.”

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Author:Sean Penn

“Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.”

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Author:Peter Jackson

“Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.”

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Author:Addison Webster Moore

“What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?”

Intention Maturity

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.”

Results Attention Intention Worthy

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.”

Ifs May Social Results Produce Evolution Intention

Book:Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change

Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change

“I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.”

Mistake Enemy Intention Dread

Author:Thucydides

“A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.”

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Author:Fred Brooks

“We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.”

Source: Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983

“We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.”

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Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.”

Knowing Materials Intention

Author:Tony Palermo

“Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.”

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Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.”

Failing Intention

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.”

Style Program Intention Missions Pursue

Author:Gerhard Richter

“But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.”

“Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.”

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Author:Robert Crumb

“There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.”

“I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.”

Next Intention Murphy

Author:Leslie Jones

“There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.”

“Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.”

People Ifs World May Made Able Plans Promise Intention Best Intentions

Book:Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

Source: Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.”

Poor Results Approach Intention Good Intentions

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of... Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.”

Thinking Moments Miracle Intention Absence Inner Peace Agendas

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.”

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Author:David A. Stewart

“The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.”

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Author:Lou Doillon

“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”

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Author:Ann Leckie

“Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.”

Soul Grows Intention Deeds Your Soul Good Deeds

Author:Soman Chainani

“There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.”

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Book:The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built

Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built

“Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.”

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Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.”

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Author:Christina Baldwin

“... love always betrays its intentions.”

Intention Betray Love Always

Book:Catherine-Paris

Source: Catherine-Paris

“I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.”

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Author:Elie Tahari

“Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.”

Persons Sometimes Realizing Intention

Author:Edwina Findley

“My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.”

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Author:Michael Hersch

“The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.”

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Author:Gerry Lopez

“If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.”

Ifs Use Action Technology Path Intention

Author:Gerry Lopez

“It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.”

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Author:Dan Harmon

“The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.”

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Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East, and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder. . . . Their aim is to seize power in Iraq, and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.”

Ideas Intention Revolutionary Deceived

Book:Fidel Castro Reader

Source: Fidel Castro Reader

“Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.”

Hell Intention Bad Intentions

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.”