Samuel Johnson Quotes
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Writing bores me so.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
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I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
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If you want the world to knowWe won't let hatred growPut a little love in your heart.
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There will be many men who will move one against another, holding in their hands a cutting tool. But these will not do each other any injury beyond tiring each other; for, when one pushes forward the other will draw back. But woe to him who comes between them! For he will end by being cut in pieces.
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I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.
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My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable characters and great stories because, if you don't, it doesn't matter how cool it might look - no one is going to care about it.
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
