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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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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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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I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.
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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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I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.
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I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
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Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
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'You got types?''Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.'
