Philip Guedalla Quotes
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.
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A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.
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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
