Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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My best friend is my husband.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'
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The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
