William Cowper Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.
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We carry out our work under the leadership of the government.
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I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.
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He that runs may read.
