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I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#being #being famous #certain #famous #field

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day. ↗

— Guy Forget

#architect #career #day #decide #doctor

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. ↗

— Brad Thor

#afforded #al #conventions #geneva #in my opinion

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#effects #eight #got #i #made

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#anything #cannot #define #else #final

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#assumes #existence #exists #fact #indifferent

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#author #been #chinese #countries #description

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#fact #first #i #my own #observation

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#compatible #diminished #ever #happiness #hardly

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#highways #movement #national #our #reflect