Philip Guedalla Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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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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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.
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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
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When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.
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I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
