H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
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My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
