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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If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
