Samuel Johnson Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
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It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
