Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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Fear is the enemy of curiosity.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.
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I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
