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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.


Robert Carlyle

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I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.
TYLER PERRY I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.
CORY MONTEITH I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
REED HASTINGS If I'm healthy, that comes across on camera.
ERIN KARPLUK I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Joh...
CEELO GREEN I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!
AMANDA PEET I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think ...
RICHARD C. ARMITAGE I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on...
VICKY MCCLURE I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize t...
VICTORIA BECKHAM Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
DAVID DINKINS I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype su...
FINN JONES There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R...
STEPHEN MOYER We prepared well for Robert Morris and knew what we were going to face.
JASON BLOOM As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which y...
CHRIS FUSSELL I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
PATRICE LECONTE There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy ...
ROONEY MARA I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV...
COLIN QUINN I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers....
JAMES EARL JONES I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If t...
ALFRED MOLINA I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the s...
NOLAN NORTH I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
ROBERT STACK When I was younger, it was harder for me to find a black eyeliner that would actually show up on my ...
AJA NAOMI KING Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure ...
DANA DELANY I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it&...
ESSIE DAVIS I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and s...
DAVID WALLIAMS I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.
CILLA BLACK When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on c...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
DAN QUAYLE I'm very lucky.
DAMIAN LEWIS I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I...
KEVIN MCCLOUD I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he...
RETTA I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
A. J. BUCKLEY Everybody asks, 'How do you do it?' And I'm like, 'Well, I'm recurring on both s...
RENA SOFER I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pay...
KEVIN WILLIAMSON I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
DANE COOK I'm a lucky gal.
ROSIE PEREZ If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm ver...
JOAN COLLINS For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, whe...
BETSY BRANDT I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentati...
MURRAY WALKER Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Co...
JAMES GRAY When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I ju...
ELENA ROGER I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joy...
DAVID REMNICK When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to...
STEVE IRWIN I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to ...
CHARLIE HUNNAM I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.'...
KIM FIELDS Our teacher, Mr. Stratton, was way distracting with his angular face and broad shoulders. The dark-r...
KATRINA ABBOTT I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smac...
DARON MALAKIAN But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in ge...
DANNY MCBRIDE No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
FISHER STEVENS Robert and Kevin really communicated well on the court.
HOWARD FISHER I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the...
HAILEY BALDWIN I'm a very lucky girl.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
MARTHA STEWART I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids...
NICOLE BEHARIE I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of b...
ANDIE MACDOWELL I'm very lucky. I do voiceovers, 'Family Guy,' on and on, and quite frankly, I'm one...
ADAM WEST I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great...
RAY COMBS Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
JANICE DICKINSON I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.
KELLY RIPA I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being...
JACK LOWDEN I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.
BETSY BEERS Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his...
RYAN GOSLING Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a studen...
PARK BO-GUM In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the bes...
ANNE ROBINSON People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well th...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
KATE WALSH You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.
TAPAN GHOSH There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing o...
CARA DELEVINGNE I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.
ASA BUTTERFIELD I'm a lucky guy. No question.
STEDMAN GRAHAM I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.
RUTH BERNHARD I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '9...
WILLIAM GIBSON In Yiddish, we say, 'Nisht ahin un nisht aher.' It's neither here, it's neither ther...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I'm well-versed on the mat, but I can pick up people much bigger than me.
SETH ROLLINS I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects ...
RYAN MCPARTLIN I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the cam...
LEE NORRIS I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my to...
IDINA MENZEL Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
MARK TWAIN I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I&...
NIK WALLENDA I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.
EVEL KNIEVEL I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sha...
JOHN LYDON I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
J. B. SMOOVE I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
BRYAN ADAMS When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate...
JOHN SEXTON I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can...
RAJIV OUSEPH I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which canno...
STEPHEN LEACOCK I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes....
AUTRE NE VEUT He's been working well at home so we knew he had an engine and Robert says he'll come on for that.
GRAHAM WYLIE I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or...
HEIDI KLUM I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
ZOE CASSAVETES Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
REGGIE JACKSON I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don&#...
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THOMAS CARLYLE Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
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THOMAS CARLYLE His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the con...
THOMAS CARLYLE The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Violence does even justice unjustly.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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THOMAS CARLYLE What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, R...
THOMAS CARLYLE For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
THOMAS CARLYLE A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
THOMAS CARLYLE Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
THOMAS CARLYLE When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the...
THOMAS CARLYLE Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accide...
THOMAS CARLYLE Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders ...
THOMAS CARLYLE To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will op...
THOMAS CARLYLE How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmon...
THOMAS CARLYLE What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest ...
THOMAS CARLYLE All comes out even at the end of the day.
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THOMAS CARLYLE My books are friends that never fail me."

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THOMAS CARLYLE One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
THOMAS CARLYLE Song is the heroics of speech.
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THOMAS CARLYLE A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
THOMAS CARLYLE The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
THOMAS CARLYLE The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
THOMAS CARLYLE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the t...
THOMAS CARLYLE Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
THOMAS CARLYLE It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
THOMAS CARLYLE Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibi...
THOMAS CARLYLE It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
THOMAS CARLYLE Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is alrea...
THOMAS CARLYLE No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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THOMAS CARLYLE But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do mor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
THOMAS CARLYLE The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLE Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the wor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being...
THOMAS CARLYLE Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work c...
THOMAS CARLYLE Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrender...
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THOMAS CARLYLE Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
THOMAS CARLYLE Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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THOMAS CARLYLE Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to b...
THOMAS CARLYLE By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is st...
THOMAS CARLYLE The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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THOMAS CARLYLE The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
THOMAS CARLYLE There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
THOMAS CARLYLE Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
THOMAS CARLYLE The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
THOMAS CARLYLE Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLE Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
THOMAS CARLYLE Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
THOMAS CARLYLE Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
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