#exercises

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out. ↗

— Don Baylor

#days #doctors #doing #every #every time

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes! ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs. ↗

— Barry Levinson

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#auditioning #bad #definitely #exercises #figure

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. ↗

— Barbara Ann Scott

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