Norman Vincent Peale quote: "The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised."

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic...
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back ...
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Live your life and forget your age.
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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full ...
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I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eag...
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.
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The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command ...
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.
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Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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A peaceful mind generates power.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
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It's always too early to quit.
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The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the s...
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The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide fr...
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get...
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
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What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn fr...
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights an...
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much f...
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even wi...
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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for Americ...
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so r...
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret...
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
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It is a fact that you project what you are.
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies treme...
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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief i...
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself ...
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In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the str...
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The first step is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The s...
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide fr...
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We tend to get what we expect.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condit...
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
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Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it....
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day an...
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their d...
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pi...
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishmen...
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause...
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hid...
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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It's always too early to quit.
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even wi...
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affir...
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently e...
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The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.
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The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights a...
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touc...
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic...
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you c...
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It's always to soon to quit!
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
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There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Culti...
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A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive a...
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilites-alw...
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
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Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a precious gem to be filled ...
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
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Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoug...
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to ...
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The power of positive thinking
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
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Trust yourself. Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.
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A masterful retreat is itself a victory
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I really believe kids want to do well. It's a coach's job to create an environment for them to be su...
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relation...
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Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do....
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow
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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired o...
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Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill yo...
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The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spo...
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Know that you yourself are a miracle.
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have trem...
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this pictu...
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm
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Change your thoughts, and you change your world
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you w...
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Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe t...
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Culti...
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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they be...
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You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…
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The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many p...
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positive...
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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect litt...
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principle. Act as if, and that which you practice will tend to be.
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You would think that economy would be one of the easiest habits in the world to break but it isn't.
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Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when yo...
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Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
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Become a "possibilitarian". No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights a...
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Picturize, prayerize, actualize
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Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remar...
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they be...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it i...
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day an...
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Too much caution is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy co...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta...
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When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.
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This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables ...
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wh...
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Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo...
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies t...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will f...
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Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be p...
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently ...
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help y...
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN

Find a need and fill it.
RUTH STAFFORD PEALE

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
ROBERT C. PEALE

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails mean...
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
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It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're...
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an...
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as...
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worr...
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not t...
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I cou...
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes ...
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
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What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such ...
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never ...
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don...
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own sk...
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to ...
VINCENT CASSEL

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never g...
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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
VINCENT CASSEL

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy...
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I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil...
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of...
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange ...
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always ...
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I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they ca...
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if y...
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only a...
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I...
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you we...
VINCENT CASSEL

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
VINCENT CASSEL

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films...
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People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, beca...
VINCENT CASSEL

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

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The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

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