Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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I write from my stomach.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
