John Dryden Quotes
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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You can get beat any day.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
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The booze and lemon pledge Buchanan who choked lyrics, called it singing since guitar strings and vocal cords are made from different kinds of wheat.
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Regaining the title from the thief who stole it from me.
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But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;Within that circle none durst walk but he.
