Rachel Carson Quotes
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.
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I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
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I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
