Samuel Butler Quotes
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
