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Leslie Stephen Quotes

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: November 28, 1832 - February 22, 1904

Topics

Work Best Wish You Nothing Profound

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

Live People Think Potential Old

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Matthew McConaughey

Time Money Truck Making Money First

So I started home schooling. I was a little freaked out about that, because I' m such a social person, involved in everything. It was awesome. I loved it and I loved being home.

Home Loved Person Awesome Everything

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Work Live Opportunity Alone Simple

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

Think I Think Theater Ought

I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.

Jared Padalecki

Funny Great Fun Me Story Laugh

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

Brain Song Think Genuine Emotion

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

Good Wind Think Teeth Up Books

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

Family Love I Am City Back Everyone

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Anthony Hopkins

Great Personality World Genius Role

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

Writing Survival Personal More Songs

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

Svetlana Alexievich

Me Reality Capture Always Magnet

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