Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.
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Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.
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There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.
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Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.
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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
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The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
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I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
