Plautus Quotes
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
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Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.
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It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
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The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.
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Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.
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Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.
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Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres.
