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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Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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If somebody has something negative to say, I'm a very - I won't say introverted, because I'm not introverted - I'm a very, just, calm person.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I'm a musician. I'm a songwriter.
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
