Francisco Goya Quotes
I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I like to play with tropes.
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I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
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What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
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'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.
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I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.
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When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.
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I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.
