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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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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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
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Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
