Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.
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Big doors swing on little hinges.
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A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)
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'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.
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I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
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I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
