B. W. Powe Quotes
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02
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I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.
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Jennifer Lawrence is an incredible person and the most unpredictable person you will ever meet. You never know what she's going to say and why she's saying it. She's extremely fun to work with her and obviously perfect for Katniss.
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Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.
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One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
