#due

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. ↗

— Moliere

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I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#am #better #brain #could #dues

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— Bob Ney

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What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative. ↗

— Susan Collins

#colleagues #due #find #i #male

If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they're hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#certain #characters #done #emotional #hyper

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#become #champion #concentration #dues #had

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#drama #drama school #dues #every #i

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#break #business #came #changes #decided

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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