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“Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.”

Way Mean Hard Faces Values Behinds Directors Like Me Producers Convincing Good Way Don't Like Me

Author:Amanda Plummer

“The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.”

Mean Has Beens Ends Social Behinds Mindset Medical Experiments Justify Impetus Ends Justify The Means

Author:James Morcan

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.”

Trying Mean Stills Real Done Eye Song Behinds Focus Band Thoughtful

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.”

Wells May Mean Made Lasts Simple Behinds Quality Tools Leaving Expensive Buying Now And Then More Money Junk Simple Living Repetitive Discounts Living More

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.”

Men Mean Behinds Doors Opposition Halls Unfair Cowardly

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.”

Mean Night Behinds Poverty Cutting Streets Morality Ethics Winter Fishes Shelter Blast Barrels Sustaining Gutters Morality And Religion Winter Night Sustaining Life

Author:Horace Greeley

“I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?”

Thinking Mean I Can Interesting Behinds Quality Optimism Optimistic Realist Dubious

Author:Guy Pearce

“My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.”

Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.”

Mean Happens Lasts Next Effort Behinds Doors Truth Is Spectators

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.”

Trying Mind Humans Mean Use Spirit Behinds Fantasy Mountain Institutions Projection Human Psyche

Author:Ram Dass