Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks -
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
Wavy Gravy -
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Octavia Spencer
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How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!
Samuel Lover -
I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
Wendy Liebman -
Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
Garry Tan -
Blood and death. That moves me.
Ikue Mori -
Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
Barton Gellman -
I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.
Wendell Berry
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But coercion never produces harmony. How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will? Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion. This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.
Harry Browne -
I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
Ornette Coleman -
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
Bob Dylan -
'As for your circumcisions, the chief modin can arrange all. Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. Haram.'
Anthony Burgess -
Capital, n. The seat of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce -
Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
Lucy Dacus
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I spend way more than I should...and way less than I want.
Nan Kempner -
There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
Pamela Stephenson -
Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
Peter Diamandis -
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Umberto Eco -
Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.
Geoffrey Chaucer