Bill Forsyth Quotes
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.
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We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
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New York City is crazy; there are people everywhere. New York is the best city in the world, I think. You have everything there.
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I just need to go to like an island or something.
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My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
