Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

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I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

Jo Brand

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My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

Jenna Blum

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What I like is finding new angles on genres.

John Hillcoat

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Exclusive will not be published in book format.

Jeffrey Archer

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

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When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

Shonda Rhimes

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We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that's shot more classically. And that's something in 'Parenthood' that has evolved.

Jason Katims

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To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

Jonny Wilkinson

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Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Donald Hall

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Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

Chloe Zhao

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I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Bob Fosse

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I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

Bob Graham

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