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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Being, Choice, Focus, Future

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Being, Censure, Tax, Man

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Being, Nothing

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Country, Nothing

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Being, World

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Being, Key, Language

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

John Irving, American Novelist

Being, Habits, Worth

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Being, Perfection

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"There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle."

Gravity

"I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to."

Pretty

"Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors."

People

"As an actor, I was just satisfied to work."

Work

"Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor."

Actor

"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."

Birthday

"I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present."

Present

"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."

Shadow

"I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy."

Being