Nevil Shute Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Music is my release.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I'm a real optimist.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
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Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
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I love Steven Meisel and David Sims' work, I think they're both amazing photographers. I want to be at the same level as them one day.
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Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
