Jonathan Swift Quotes
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
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I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
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It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.
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Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.
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If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.
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Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
