John Dos Passos Quotes
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
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We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.
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I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
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As long as I'm working, I'm happy. You see my face - great. You don't see my face - too bad, I don't care. I'll keep going.
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I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.
