Mark Twain Quotes
Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. If I had taken out a life policy on this one the premiums would have bankrupted me ages ago.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Pour réparer des ans l'irréparable outrage.
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When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.
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I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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Cause I knew one day that life would get better. Finally made a way so now it’s all better.
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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. If I had taken out a life policy on this one the premiums would have bankrupted me ages ago.
