Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
Dallas Roberts
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
Ednita Nazario
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
Abby Wambach
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
Sam Raimi
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
Francesca Annis
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Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
Barack Obama
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A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.
Tad Williams
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Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.
Tad Williams
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'
Karen Blixen
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
Jack Kerouac
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Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 - or by what is happening on our border with Mexico? … What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona?
Pat Buchanan
