Bill Mauldin Quotes
While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
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The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
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I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
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I never got a chance to take advantage of 'Superbad' at school because I graduated before it came out, so I never got to use any of my fame to pick up girls and go to cool parties.
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We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.
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While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
