I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.
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