Quintilian Quotes
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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No two wars are identical.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'
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You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
