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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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
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All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
