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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
There is nothing that I didn't get to do while I was serving in Congress - except be in the majority.
The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.
I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
