Abigail Adams Quotes
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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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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I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
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Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
