David Lean Quotes
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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His the author's renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
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When a fellow says, 'It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing,' it's th' money.
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Oh my God I am so cool.
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I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.
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I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.
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Life on this island is slim pickings if you have ambition.
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For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.
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I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
