T. J. Lavin Quotes
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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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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I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.
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A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.
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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
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I guess you shouldn't smoke cigarettes and not eat.
