The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
Recitation: by Male by Female
You can't be perfect at everything.
Andie MacDowell
YouPerfectEverything
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Althea Gibson
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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
Stephen Greenblatt
LifeBlack And WhiteArtBlackDoing
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
Robert Creeley
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I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Robert Englund
DoneTwoRomeo And JulietRomeo
It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
Rowan Atkinson
EasyTurnTakeFeature
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
Luc Ferrari
DumbTeachersFirstSatisfiedPiano
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.
Lois Lowry
ScienceBrotherMeDoctorMedicine
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur
MoneyValuePeopleEvilMeasured
Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'
Anne Wojcicki
YouInformationWantWhyGenetic
What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
Wynton Marsalis
MusicSongLearnPushInformation
'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.
Ryan Reynolds
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