Mark Twain Quotes
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You cannot do only one thing.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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Dry your tears, have no fears.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
