H. L. Mencken Quotes
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I am a just man.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.
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Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.
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The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.
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'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM.
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
