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Profession: Actor
Nationality: English
Birthday: December 27, 1879

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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.

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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.

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I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

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I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

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The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

John Ratzenberger

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As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

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The hard thing is making sure you work with wonderful people and that you get something out of it so that you can get better as an actor.

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When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.

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God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.

Linda Evangelista

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If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

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The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

William Robertson Smith

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No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

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Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

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I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

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