One Thing Quotes - Page 37

• A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Judgment, Denied

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• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Boredom, Giving

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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• Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

  Kay Boyle

  Drinking, Alcoholism, Deceiver

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• ... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

  Sally Quinn

  Writing, Government, People

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• The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

  Ally Sheedy

  Want, Way, Facts

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• The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

  Jane Smiley

  Family, Coming Out, Tolerate

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• The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

  Joss Whedon

  Power, Centeredness, Tables

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• I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.

  Ryan Hall

  Heart, Unique, Journey

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• ... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Two, I've Learned, Hundred

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• Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Self, Important, Slavery

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.281, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

  Louis Zamperini

  Sports, Country, Giving Up

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• It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.

  William Stafford

  Snow, Quality, Done

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.

  Janis Ian

  Hands, Law, Missing

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• It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

  Lena Headey

  Feelings, Greatest Love, Protect

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• Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.

  Lucy Calkins

  Writing, Advice, Together

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• You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season.

  Eli Roth

  People, Next, Majority

  "MIPTV: Eli Roth on His Netflix TV Debut 'Hemlock Grove' (Q&A)". Interview with Rhonda Richford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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• One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!

  Bruce LaBruce

  People, Trying, Want

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."

  Wes Anderson

  Play, Years, Guy

  "Interview: Wes Anderson - 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Writer & Director". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 6, 2014.

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• Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Drug, Levels

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

  Glenn Beck

  Children, Promise, Demand

  "'Glenn Beck': Founders' Friday: George Whitefield". "Glenn Beck" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. May 14, 2010.

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• Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.

  Eric Bolling

  Politician, Worst, Offenders

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

  Steven Pressfield

  Father, Three, Littles

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.

  Hilary Swank

  Drama, People, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Thinking, Want, Might

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.

  Chris Hardwick

  Guy, Looks, Hey

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