#you

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.' ↗

— Sid Caesar

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Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#depressing #enjoying #got #important #kinds

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#every man #him #how #know #man

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. ↗

— William Feather

#broaden #else #mind #nothing #open

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. ↗

— William Feather

#certainly #difficult #here #inspiration #intelligent

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ↗

— William Feather

#children #example #fun #good #good example

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#even #family #grudges #italy #killers

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ↗

— Julia Gillard

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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. ↗

— James Cagney

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