"Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm."

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Joseph Addison

#Lying Quotes #Doe Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.”
“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.”
“Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.”
“True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.”
“It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.”
“I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.”
“This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible”

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