Brian De Palma Quotes
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
Adam Michnik -
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
Mackenzie Davis -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Barbara Bush -
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
Abigail Breslin
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden -
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
Ian Anderson -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez -
I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
Samantha Fox -
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
Caity Lotz -
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
Patrick McHenry -
By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
Ted Cruz -
People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
Maggie Smith -
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Larry Page -
By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I'd been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it - and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work?
Karan Mahajan
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
Abu Bakr -
What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.
Jay Asher -
Most Americans are very cool people.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
Victoria Pratt -
I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
Brian De Palma