Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
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Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.
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There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.
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You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid.
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Where there is a will there is a way.
