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Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Maria Edgeworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: January 1, 1767 - May 22, 1849

Topics

Business Pleasure His Aversion

The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

Jessica St. Clair

Life Friend Truth Start Game You

I've been able to do a lot of interesting things.

Interesting Things Been Able Lot

In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around.

Life Journey Small Choose Want Hang

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

Life Words Poetry Start Think Feel

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

People Me Pressure Help Attention

I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.

Think Feel You Nice Sometimes Want

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

Love Relationship Engineering Out

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Annie Leibovitz

Me Talking Camera Need Reason Still

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Will Matter Being Only Even Prevent

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Time Long Back Storytelling Always

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

Character Villain Comedy Actor First

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Evil Blame Need Illness Victims

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