Mark Twain Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler -
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
Gary Ross -
I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
F. Gary Gray -
I'm definitely post-something.
Salman Rushdie -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank -
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey -
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Paul Auster -
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.
Marcel Proust -
Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.
Ray Bradbury -
Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
Ed Wood -
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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