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've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
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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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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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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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'Balance' is a really big word for me.
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My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.
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If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
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Cause me no causes.
