James L. Brooks Quotes
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All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
Ophelia Lovibond
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
M.I.A.
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I want you to be mine, again, babyI know my lifestyle is driving you crazyAye, I cannot see myself without you
Fetty Wap
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
T. E. Lawrence
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They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
Arundhati Roy
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My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'
Kem Nunn
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This is a game where if you don't have people who dislike you, then you don't know what it is to be liked. I've had a lot of dislike thrown at me in this game, but I've also had a lot of love.
Dominick Cruz
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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
Lauren Willig
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Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.
Brenda Novak
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I'm a journalism junkie.
James L. Brooks