Joel Silver Quotes
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
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Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
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Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time.
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When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
