Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
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Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
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Cocaine is like really evil coffee.
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Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.
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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.