Jacques Barzun Quotes
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
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I had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important.
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It is harder to get into Deloitte than into the University of Pennsylvania.
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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
