A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.


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JULIAN ALLEN
So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind
waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN
I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not jus...
JULIAN ALLEN
So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN
Right now we are inundated with stuff,
JULIAN ALLEN
By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand fra...
JULIAN ASSANGE
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
JULIAN ASSANGE
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.
JULIAN ASSANGE
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as ...
JULIAN CASTRO
The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to in...
JULIAN CASTRO
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquai...
JULIAN SIMON
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of u...
JULIAN SIMON
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induce...
JULIAN SIMON
In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh,...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I...
JULIAN CASTRO
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, vicious...
JULIAN BARNES
I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitaria...
JULIAN LENNON
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subt...
JULIAN BARNES
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not u...
JULIAN BAGGINI
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline ...
JULIAN ASSANGE
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being j...
JULIAN BAGGINI
When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were ...
JULIAN ASSANGE
The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO
For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND
My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO
Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI
The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL
We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO
Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES
She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH
I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE
Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI