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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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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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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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
