George Orwell Quotes
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.
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I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
