Mark Twain Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
