Samuel Butler Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.
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When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
