Mark Twain Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.
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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
