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The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
People assume that you need to run fast to get to optimum fitness, but the truth is endurance lifting makes you stronger and leaner.
It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.
It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!
I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.
I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends.
You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied everywhere else.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.
With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.
I wasn't always confident; it took me awhile to kind of assume my role in fashion and feel attractive and be able to walk into a room.
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are.
I've studied martial arts, but of course I'm not anywhere near the level of my father. Still, people assume I'm a lethal weapon anyway!
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.
It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.
I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
People assume that the smarter your home, the better your life, but in reality, technology so often gets in the way of leading a good life.
Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.
Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.
I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.
Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Most voters assume because these political 'pros' are on TV or write for national papers, they know politics. Sadly, most don't have a clue.
People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.
I think we have to assume we have one life. Though, having said that, I did write a song called 'You Only Live Twice.' I'll settle for that.
It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
If you see someone struggling, offer input. If someone comes to you with a question, don't assume they should seek a higher up for the answer.
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.