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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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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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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The fact is all lives matter. That includes black, and it includes white, and it includes everybody else. And we have... Democrats that are afraid to even say that.
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I think Joshua has been doing a good job winning his fights and beating the guys in front of him. You got to congratulate him for his success.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
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This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
