Mark Twain Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
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Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
