Dagobert D. Runes Quotes
The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
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You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
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There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.
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It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
