Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
Quotes to Explore
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
