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• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beach, Fun, Interesting

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

  Chris Pine

  Spiritual, Religious, Powerful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

  Laura Linney

  Writing, Needs, Actors

  "Laura Linney Talks The Exorcism of Emily Rose". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. September 8, 2005.

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• It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

  Tom Felton

  Nice, People, World

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.

  Julianne Hough

  Reality, Tv Shows, Dancing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.

  Jay Cassidy

  Integrity, Thinking, Editing

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, Medicine, Magic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, People, Giving

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, School, Mean

  "Andy Goldsworthy Goes Into The Wind". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.

  Tony Palermo

  Knowing, Materials

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• Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

  Carl Sandburg

  Echoes, Silence, Cadence

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Failing

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

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• Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Reason

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• There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.

  Julie Klausner

  Animal, Views, Way

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• I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

  Leslie Jones

  Next, Murphy

  "Leslie Jones on the Craft of Comedy". Interview with Gordon Downs, www.sandiego.com. November 3, 2011.

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• There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'

  Thomas S. Monson

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Mar 04, 2015

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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Promise, World

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.138, AudioInk

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• Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of...
  Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Miracle, Inner Peace

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 30, 2014

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• Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

  David A. Stewart

  People, World, Western

  "This much I know: Dave Stewart". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2012.

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• The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, People, Scales

  "Lou Doillon? At 30, With Her First CD, She Won a French Grammy. Now Her CD Is Here. Lucky Us" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

  Ann Leckie

  Mean, Choices, Wish

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• There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

  Napoleon Hill

  Glasses, Twelve, May

  Napoleon Hill (1937). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• Bad decisions, good intentions.

  Drake

  Decision, Good Intentions, Bad Decision

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