Claudius Claudianus Quotes
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently
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Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
