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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A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.
Peggy Johnson
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China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
James Lovelock
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.
James Carville
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Traditionally, nations have harnessed taxpayers to their territory by making almost all social guarantees dependent on working in one country, every day, every month, and for at least three decades. In creating free movement of people, this web has only got more complex but never disappeared.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.
Elvis Costello
