Bobby Farrelly Quotes
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.
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It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
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My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.
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Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.
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Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.
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But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.
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Erm, I don't really have any regrets.
