Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
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Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
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I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
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I'm the first person in my family to go to college.
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
