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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.


Paul Thomas Anderson


#ahead #audience #film #get #great

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.


Harold W. Dodds


#best #each #force #insecurity #never

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.


Barbara Ehrenreich


#anything #believe #busy #childhood #doing

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.


Alice Roosevelt Longworth


#always #arrested #arrested development #believed #development

In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd.


Jim Butcher


#cat #chicago #anger

Many mickles make a muckle.


Ron Chernow


#scottish-adage #life

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.


Chelsea Clinton


#adage #away #been #beginning #challenging

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.


Terri Windling


#adage #before #done #how #old

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.


Glenn Hoddle


#apply #because #change #exploit #football

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.


Natalie Coughlin


#become #coaches #complacent #completely #disagree






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