Adriaan Kortlandt Quotes
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Well, I don't worry about ratings. I'm trying to win a ballgame right now. Whatever it takes to win a ballgame, we're going to do it. If it takes a four-hour game, that's what we have to do.
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Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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Beauty will snatch us by the heart and love us until we are raw with understanding.
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Com'è in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
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I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
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No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.
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Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
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I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
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Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
