John Milton Quotes
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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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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.
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I love that I can demonstrate that it's OK to look and be strong.
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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
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That old man eloquent.
