Useful Quotes

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. Martha Plimpton
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The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing. Martha Stewart
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We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union. Martti Ahtisaari
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I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup. Mary-Louise Parker
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One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer. Mary Lou Jepsen
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. Mary Wollstonecraft
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It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres. María Blasco Marhuenda
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Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego. Matt Haig
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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers. Maurice Allais
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. Max Weber
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You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool. Mia Wasikowska
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Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles. Mia Wasikowska
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. Michael Caine
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I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. Michael Ian Black
Time Sometimes Criticism Mindless Something Constructive Take Most Sort Frequency Than Sending Different Informs Useful Actually Receiving
In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism. Michael Kinsley
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Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference. Michael Laudrup
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Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about. Michael Pollan
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I wanted a simple one-bedroom apartment that would impress people when they walked in but that was otherwise extremely comfortable and useful. Michael Seibel
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For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed. Miller Williams
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A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful. Miriam Shor
Time Me Past Out Characters Kind Come Lot Very Situations In The Past Useful Played
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. Mitski
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It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions. Molly Ivins
Cancer Rich Everybody Everybody Else Else Recognize One Thing Solutions Between Come Like Another Up Useful Gap Growing Thing
A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across. Monica Dolan
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Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. Morris Gleitzman
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. Mos Def
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France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner. Narendra Modi
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