George Washington Quotes
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
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Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
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We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
