Samuel Johnson Quotes
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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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 don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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I love to take baths.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
