Ferdinand Mount Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.
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Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
