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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.
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Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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You don't do classics with a Texas accent.
