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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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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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived - my breakfast supplied only two ideas - that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
