Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
Ira Sachs
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
Adam Garcia
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
Eddie Redmayne
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
Kate Micucci
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Ada Lovelace
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
Ira Glass
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Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.
J. B. Pritzker
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
Iggy Pop
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Gary Hamel
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
Natasha Lyonne
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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
Ira Sachs
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Kapil Sibal
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
Dan Jenkins
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
Naftali Bennett
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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.
Paul McEuen
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'This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.'
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
Geoffrey Chaucer