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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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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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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When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.
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In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
