Ai Yazawa Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Acting is in your soul.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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Laugh at love and love will make you cry.