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I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood -
Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
Oren Peli -
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren Bennis -
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner -
I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
Eddie Redmayne
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose -
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Viggo Mortensen -
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks -
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner -
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Jack Dee -
The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett -
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
Jackie Speier
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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
Weird Al Yankovic -
My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.
Kenneth Kaunda -
In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim du Bellay -
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus -
I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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