He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side. . . and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't realized it already. Kind of obvious. It wasn't like he'd been going to take time out to find his clothing before stopping Liam.
Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.
You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.
The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but. . . I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.
Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.
Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.
You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?
If you give up, the game is already over.
There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.
Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.
But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.
Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.