Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. (683)
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I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
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Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
