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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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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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I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
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She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.
