Philip Massinger Quotes
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.
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The mosquito is an automaton. It can afford to be nothing else.
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I am surrounded by a small group of young landscapists who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy, there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that it's a good thing.
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Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I've learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I'm ready to go if something happens.
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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Cause me no causes.
