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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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
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The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.
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Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down.
