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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
C. S. Lewis
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With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.
Channing Tatum
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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
Matthew Modine
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
Park Chan-wook
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The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.
James Surowiecki
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The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.
James Comey
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Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
C. J. Cherryh
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
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Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
Ellie Goulding
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Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
Dallas Roberts
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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
Agatha Christie
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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
Karen Elson
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We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.
Allison Williams
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Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.
Jeff Buckley
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Life is a b movie.It's stupid and it's strange,A directionless story,And the dialogue is lame.But in the he said, she said,Sometimes there's some poetry,If you turn your back long enough,And let it happen naturally.
Ani DiFranco
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
Powers Boothe
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We left Germany when I was 11.
Emayatzy Corinealdi
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'In innocence there is no strength against evil,' said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. 'But there is strength in it for good.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.
Kathleen Kennedy
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
Yvonne Strahovski