John Vanbrugh Quotes
Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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I can always go back to education.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
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Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.
