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Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: January 14, 1801 - April 21, 1866

Topics

Life Hope Doing Be Prepared Way Get

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

Family Good Great Time Day Team

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

Day School Writing Night High School

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

Today Tomorrow Clothes Laundry New

The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And broadcast shows tend to be more mainstream or middle-of-the-road.

Robert Greenblatt

You Dark Matter More Unusual Just

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Happiness Man Alive Lost Breathing

I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.

Funny Light I Am Picture Body Now

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

Christopher McQuarrie

Work Great Mind Someone Never Leave

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Work Art Mind Rose Result Earth

When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we're talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.

Women Opportunity Hope Rainbow Color

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Too Much Listen Pleasure Read Much

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Father Age Brother Me Doing Early

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Today I Am Person Now More May

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