Attributes Quote by Jane Espenson

“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.”

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Attributes Incompetence Malice People Stupid Thinking

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Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

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I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

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Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

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I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking…

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Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

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Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

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You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

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Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

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If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of…

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“Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into…

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I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that's been forgotten because…

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so…

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A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live…

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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

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God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable…

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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

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“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

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A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines…

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I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

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