Mark Twain Quotes
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
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It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.
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I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
