Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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The Candy Man can
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It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
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We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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I like a bohemian floral dress, but then I'll throw on a leather jacket or a pair of lace-up boots to give it an edge. My mom is always trying to get me to wear really sweet clothes. Something pink. But that's not really my look.
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This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.