George Crook Quotes
It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style.
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It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
