Buster Keaton Quotes
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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War is over if you want it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
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Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.
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There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
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I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.
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If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
