Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
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Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
