Stephan Pastis Quotes
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.
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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
