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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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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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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I'm interested in social commentary.
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I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
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I just want women to feel beautiful.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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.
