Saoirse Ronan Quotes
I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.
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You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
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Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.
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Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomena.
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I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.
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Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
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Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
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I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.
