#earnest

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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.


Patrick Warburton


#acutely #awfulness #character #conceive #earnestly

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.


Marc Webb


#ferment #into #sentimentality

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.


James Mcneill Whistler


#great #incomplete #labour #often #picture

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#behaviour #confounded #distinction #earnestly #i

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.


Jinato Hu


#countries #democracy #democratic #earnestly #mankind

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.


Gray Davis


#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.


Ana Gasteyer


#dress #early #earnestness #extra #fancy

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.


Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.


David Limbaugh


#bush #case #democrats #deny #earnestly

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.


Robert Dale Owen


#barbarous #consider #considered #declare #desire