Mark Twain Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.
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The little unknown thing was growing within her as suddenly and softly as the first touch of spring on the maples. It was putting out its hidden, watery roots as simply and surely as little cypresses take root in a stretch of swamp water away off yonder. It was coming upon her as quietly as the dark came up from the woods at night and hushed in the little clearing, closing every chink of every shutter tight with nothing. Impulses swelled within her, swelled her body fit to burst; yet they did not come out in words, nor song, nor in any sign.
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You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.
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We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
