Walter Hagen Quotes
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
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I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.
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Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.
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Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.
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I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
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As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.
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You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World.
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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
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You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.
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The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
