Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

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My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

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Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. - Edith Wharton

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To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

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Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

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You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.

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The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place. - Orison Swett Marden

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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

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My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. - Tracey Ullman

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