Selma Lagerlof Quotes
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.
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This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
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I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
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No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
