Tony Snow Quotes
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
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It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
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I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.
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You might see effort, but you don't see enough to get us wins.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
