Rick Scott Quotes
You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
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I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.
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Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.
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I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.
