Secret Quotes - Page 31

• The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

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• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  David Wenham

  Honesty, Self, America

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot be a secret and be profitable.

  Suzanne Evans

  Profitable

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• I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

  Jim Rash

  Smart, People, Stealing

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• You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

  Jenna Morasca

  Different

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• O let us still the secret joy partake,
  To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

  Alexander Pope

  Joy, Sake, Virtue

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.131

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• All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Children, Lying, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.130, Wordsworth Editions

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• With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

  Alan Cumming

  Ideas, People, Wandering Around

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing

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• He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
  [He that tells a secret is another's servant.]

  George Herbert

  Servant

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.383

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• The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

  Steven Tyler

  Rocks, Talking, Enlightenment

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• Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

  Arthur Helps

  Importance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Sound, Driving, Pupils

  The Scouter Magazine, January 1912.

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• The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving

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• The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Soul, Way, Persons

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

  Matthew Settle

  Littles, Clown, Bits

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• I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

  Stephen Lang

  Character, Giving, Stories

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• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  Ed Stoppard

  Dad, Fans, Biggest Fan

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• The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

  Chanakya

  Speaks Out, Political, Wish

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• The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.

  Polly Bergen

  House, Earning, Bedroom

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• The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

  Alan Lightman

  Powerful, Father, Book

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• Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

  Anne Enright

  Children, Nice, Names

  "Author, author: Name that plume" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

  Paul Broun

  Gun, Media, Aspect

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• Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

  Napoleon Hill

  Matter, Way, Attention

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