Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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I like challenges. I think that's important.
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For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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You can do marvels and miracles if you have developed the understanding of love.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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Don’t start out alone, it helps to have a co-founder when things are not going your way.
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Most of the things I write are things that are personal to me. I realized that that's the only way to really be honest. If you go writing about someone else you're just guessing at it.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
