Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Quotes
Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.
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If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
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The American people have not become heartless.
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.
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In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.
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Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
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While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
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There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
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I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.
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Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.
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Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.
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I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
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Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.
