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Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
I'm a big fan of saying the thing that is not necessarily sincere or earnest, but definitely honest.
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.
Personally, if I like someone I'm pretty earnest with that one person. So I've dated only a few over the years.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
Having set its tonal template, Vertigo Crime laid low for a few months before starting in earnest at the beginning of 2010.
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter.
I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.
My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation.
So much comedy comes out of an earnest, deeply rooted need for one thing or another, trying to get it and caring so much that you lose your sense of self-awareness.
The John McCain I first started to get to know in earnest was the one who had just returned to the U.S. Senate after losing the 2000 Republican presidential primary.
I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest desire and fervent need to rethink our lives.
It wasn't until I began to work out in earnest that I became aware of what I was eating. When I became more mindful about exercise, I became more mindful about eating.
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.