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John Galsworthy Quotes

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: August 14, 1867 - January 31, 1933

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Man Action Thought Unhappy Out Get

When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work.

Work Tools You Way Digital Right

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

Peace Mind President Whatever Pretty

What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'

Secrets Student Started Harry Potter

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

Robert Coleman Richardson

Education Physics Student Reasonable

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

Love Live New York New Really York

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture.

Small Universe Picture Problem Will

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Relationship Weird Understanding Know

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

Yourself Sorry Overcoming Doing Big

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Happiness Peace World Acting Never

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

Faith Truth Comedy Escape Despair

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

Alone Brother Parents Me Mom Sister

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

Aretha Franklin

Been Nurse Ballerina Guess Prima

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