Nick Drake Quotes
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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There is no such thing as being too independent.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.
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I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.
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Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
