Poe Ballantine Quotes
There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness.
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.
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I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.
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You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.
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There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.
