Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
