Plautus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I'm a fast writer.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.
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I used to see media on Althea Flynt and she was very wild looking. She had a mohawk and she published Hustler-I thought that was crazy. But when you study her, she was so innocent and frail and sort of birdlike, and sweet. She stayed sweet until she died, but I don't know what happened for her to get into drugs or the things she got into.
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
