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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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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In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.
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Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.
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I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
