Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. - Blaise Pascal

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If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.

Blaise Pascal

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Love, Inspirational, Life, Knows, Nothing, Reasons

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Falsehood, Know, Knows, Love, Truth, Truth And Falsehood

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

Beautiful, Men, People, Freeze, Kind, Cold

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Beautiful, Meaningful, Kindness, Make, Lips, Image

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Jeannette Walls

But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

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Peter Thiel

Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

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Fred Alan Wolf

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

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Gurinder Chadha

If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.

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Saoirse Ronan

I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.

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