#stance

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion. ↗

— David O. Selznick

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#affect #brave #brave man #circumstances #does

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ↗

— Alan Turing

#distance #done #needs #only #plenty

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#find #get #look #make #people

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#people #show #substance #think

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. ↗

— Peter Singer

#be different #best #circumstances #consequences #differences

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. ↗

— Christian Slater

#between #bit #done #films #i

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. ↗

— Robert Stack

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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