Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
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I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
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That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
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I was never any good at keeping secrets.
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Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
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When 'Dynasty' was on, it was a huge deal when Diahann Carroll came on the show. That was groundbreaking.
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If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.
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Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
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Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.
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I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.
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I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
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People are not finding potable water and you're bringing me juice? No.
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The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
