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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise

Resolve Grace Silence Fault findings
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Really Love Theater Unmerciful life
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Play safe Sex Picked Untrue
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Actually may Musical Star in My concert
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

Thrilled Stress Kids Active
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I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

Pray Believe God
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Theater Temple Religion Faith
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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

Actor Adrenaline Coming Downside
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

Actor Always Gets Life
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I always saw myself as a comedic actor and wacky best friend.
Actor Always Best Best Friend
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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I've always really liked being active. I do Spinning classes, I run, I have a trainer, I do Pilates with my sister Shade.

Active Always Being Classes
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Consumption Goals Heights Pleasure
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Actions Appearance Case Compliment
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Capitalist Fascism Nothing Reaction
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.

Young ones Fear God Respect themselves
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Act Like Soon Way
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Actually Boy Coming Ed Sheeran
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Although Any Born Brought
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Along Because Cheating Cry
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The mighty ones are active, the lazy ones are passive…both mighty and lazy ones are all important. No one is useless in this life.

Mighty ones Lazy Passive All important
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Activity Challenging Get Humans
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Been difficult Men Realize Life
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Abstract Activity Birth Course
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A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Achievements Action Basic Become
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The family Important Human beings
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Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

Act Fashion King Royal
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I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

Act Always Anybody Anybody Else
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Act Belief Believer Held
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Power is not what we do but what we do not – hasty and unwise actions that we repeat every day and which ultimately bring us into trouble.

Hasty Power Actions Unwise
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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Act Best Confidence How
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Air Facts Fly Never
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Curiosity Greatest Happiness Life
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

Age Believe Even Extend
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Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Ball Because Being Benefits
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I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

Always Because Call Day
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It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

Attractive Because Chelsea Different
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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Abandoned Around Asking Could
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I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

Actually Because Doing Ethiopia
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Ages Been Childbirth Dying
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I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.
Action Comedy Drama I Love
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