Helen Keller Quotes
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?
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Maybe I'll take a rain check and try to get in next year.
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Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
