"Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill."

-- Richard Whately

#Skills Quotes #Two Quotes #Evil Quotes

“I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.”

Source : "Queer as Folk's Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.
“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.”
“Iâ€™m not brave any more darling. Iâ€™m all broken. Theyâ€™ve broken me.”
“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.”
“A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.”
“Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.”
“One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.”

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