Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
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It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
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I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
