Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
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I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
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People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
