Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
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I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
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People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
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Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
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Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.
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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
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This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.
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My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
