Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.
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I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.
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You may all go to pot.
