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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.


Helen Fielding


#bridget #bridget jones #caribbean #cruises #earnest

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.


Mindy Kaling


#earnestness #face #face value #media #people

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.


Gene Tierney


#career #earnest #i #impatient #serious

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.


Christopher Walken


#aims #always #around #because #comedy

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.


P. J. O'Rourke


#earnestness #sent #stupidity

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.


Robert Dale Owen


#composed #confederate #convictions #dangers #deny

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.


Charlie Chaplin


#always #am #cane #derby #desperate

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.


Winston Churchill


#business #earnest #game

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.


Confucius


#constitutes #earnestness #five #generosity #gravity

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.


Claire Danes


#am #because #certified #did #earnest






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