John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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It's such a challenging time, and in my small way, I will make it so that other younger women, and maybe older women, will be able to do the things they want to do, and accept themselves and their experience.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins.
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That old man eloquent.