Buster Keaton Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I do not cook.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
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I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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Every so often, you come across a member of the younger generation who makes you think, 'Well, perhaps the future's going to be OK after all.'
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Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.
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A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix