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Samuel Johnson Quotes

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Topics

Man Genius Been Seldom Ruined

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

Practice Enjoy Never

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

Good Progress Feel Good Feel Now

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

Life Work Happy Me Wait Short

Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.

Best Past Child Parents College

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

People Thought Scars Become Line

Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.

Work Amazing Growing Up Growing Him

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

Walk Yourself Door Be Yourself Start

Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.

Me Makeup Free Giving Anything Take

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

Myself Job Man People Trying Acting

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Me Night Assumptions You Nobody Box

I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.

Feeling Tennis Out Shape Like Lot

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

Life Assumptions Find Know Meet

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