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 like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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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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The first step to understanding what is really going on in our communities and in our country is to gather more and better data related to those we arrest, those we confront for breaking the law and jeopardizing public safety, and those who confront us. 'Data' seems a dry and boring word but, without it, we cannot understand our world and make it better.
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There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.
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When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role. The outlaw quietly takes a seat in the back row of the theater of the mind and watches.
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That old man eloquent.
