Samuel Butler Quotes
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.
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I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
