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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
Best
Me
Perfection
Got
Been
Australia
Help
I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.
Nick Nurse
Game
Chasing
Say
Imperfect
Perfection
Always
Nobody wants to watch perfection.
Nicolas Cage
Perfection
Nobody
Wants
Watch
Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection.
Pamela Druckerman
Good
You
Looking
Reflect
Older
Entails
Striving
Wearing
Dressing
Rather
Perfection
Generic
Looking Good
Well
Making
Than
Get
Just
Forties
Choices
Requires
Your
Who
Specific
Enjoying
Basics
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
Pat Conroy
Great
Me
Construction
Style
Great Gatsby
Writer
Deliverance
Perfection
Reminded
Praise
His
American
James
Pages
Novel
Found
Now
Published
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.
Paul Merton
Book
Vision
Dedication
Every
Chaplin
See
About
Pursuit
Perfection
Read
How
Getting
Gag
Tunnel
Tunnel Vision
Worked
Keaton
Buster
Right
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan
Freedom
Commitment
Equality
Opportunity
Free
Giving
Live
Assure
Honorable
Our
Alike
Striving
Has-Been
Constant
Give
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
He
Perfection
Principles
Said
Lincoln
Been
Up
Story
Meant
Union
Founding
Slave
Preserve
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
Paul von Hindenburg
Marked
Our
Trenches
Cross
Troops
Fact
Could
Had
Perfection
Fail
Obstacles
Tanks
However
Been
Effect
Did
Pitch
Now
Technical
Raised
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
Philippe Petit
Myself
Nature
Age
Energy
Other
Other Kids
Solely
Kid
Kids
Out
Willingness
Had
Perfection
Liked
Unusual
Truly
Quest
Very
Very Early Age
Taste
Just
Which
Little
Little Kid
Things
Early
Started
Early Age
I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
Philippe Petit
Saying
Man
Amazing
First
Air
Francis
Cite
Rings
Ten
Could
Onstage
Throw
Outside
He
Perfection
Am
Juggler
Quest
Lot
Influences
Really
Who
Keep
Developing aesthetic sense is vital for actors. They must understand that there is no small role, only small actors. A good actor will do the smallest role to perfection, and be recognised.
Rajiv Menon
Good
Will
Sense
Recognised
Must
Vital
Only
Small
Perfection
Developing
Smallest
Understand
Aesthetic
Role
Good Actor
Actor
At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.
Rebecca Serle
Good
Heart
Girl
Live
Pressures
Ourselves
About
Put
Perfection
Ideas
Mostly
Up
Good Girls
I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.
Rene Russo
Struggle
Perfection
Self-Conscious
Idea
Limited
Am
America
Body
Aware
All that time I spent chasing Yale was time I could have been using to actually make a difference in the world. Bravery, not perfection, was the key that unlocked all the doors I've walked through since.
Reshma Saujani
Time
World
Key
Chasing
Doors
Unlocked
Spent
Could
Through
Perfection
Since
Make
Make A Difference
Yale
Been
Walked
Bravery
The Doors
Difference
Using
Actually
You can tell when someone on TV who's supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit or tailored to perfection.
Rhea Seehorn
You
Pay
Gucci
Back
Tell
TV
Wearing
Someone
Struggling
Tailored
Perfection
Clearly
Supposed
Loans
Suit
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach
Brilliant
Fire
Those
Only
Jonathan
Perfection
Reach
Within
Burns
Little
Us
Moments
Lives
Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
Richard Smalley
Nature
You
Technology
Down
Living
Every
Atom
Put
Perfection
Know
Spot
Does
How
Cell
Precise
Precisely
Done
Depends
Being
Molecular
Molecules
Works
Right
Things
Last
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Robert South
Nature
Man
Power
Action
Drawing
Highest
Perfection
Forth
Vigor
Activity
Utmost
I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
Roger Rees
You
Chasing
Think
Our
Spend
Possible
Possible Thing
Point
Attempt
Perfection
Reach
Artistic
Moving
Lives
Thing
I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.
Ron Howard
Family
Believe
Our
Those
Perfection
Holidays
Gaps
Downright
I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Me
Change
Job
Nothing
Teeth
Perfection
Does
Get
Going
Nose
English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Love
God
Faith
Church
Long
First
Before
Christian
Other
Fathers
Gazed
Blameless
Perfection
Ideal
Towards
Primitive
Eden
Walked
Wherein
English
Each
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
Said Nursi
Future
Law
Become
Past
Creation
Evident
Something
Fact
Tendency
Through
Perfection
Development
Bound
Towards
Self-Evident
Gradual
May
Established
In The Past
Theoretical
Innate
Present
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Government
Great
Religion
Science
Mistake
Progress
Has-Been
Constantly
Steadily
Morality
Adopt
Civilization
Perfection
Idea
Towards
Well-Read
Been
Refinement
Very
Improvement
Human
Common
Arts
Establishment
Race
Persons
Human Race
Even
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
Our
Though
Eye
Never
Advance
Perfection
Toward
Know
Reached
Always
May
Reasonable
Perfection is impossible, but you don't stop aiming for it.
Saquon Barkley
You
Impossible
Aiming
Perfection
Stop
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