James Hilton Quotes
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
