Jonathan Swift Quotes
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
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I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
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If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?
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I don't like to tell lies.
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.
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When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.
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We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.
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Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
