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 had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.
