Owen Wister Quotes
When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
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We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
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What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
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Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
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We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
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When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
