Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
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I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
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Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.
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When we were children, we often played war. We had a fine collection of lead soldiers. My brothers would take different countries: Xavier had Italy; Pierre, Germany. Or they would swap around. Well, I, gentlemen, always had France.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
