Dashiell Hammett Quotes
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
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Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.
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The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
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Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
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The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
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Dum taxat, rerum magnarum parva potest resexemplare dare et vestigia notitiai.
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Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.
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'You got types?''Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.'
