Samuel Johnson Quotes
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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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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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
