D. B. Sweeney Quotes
You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.
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Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
