William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Faith is important to me.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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In the Bernstein Manual there is a short chapter on undercover work. The first line says, in capital letters, AVOID UNDERCOVER WORK.
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Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.
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In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
