Dan Gilbert Quotes
Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
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No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
