William Hartnell Quotes
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I don't eat red meat.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
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As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.
