Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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To a New Yorker, a 1948 Indians World Series baseball signed by the whole team might be worth only $200 to $300, but to a Clevelander like myself, it might be, like, $1,000 to $2,000.
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People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
