Adam Haslett Quotes
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
Adam Haslett
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
Barbara Mandrell
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
Ted Deutch
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
Duncan Jones
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I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.
Christopher Miller
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Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
Ulysses S. Grant
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In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.
Jason Calacanis
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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Paulo Coelho
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
Adam Haslett