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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.
