William Battie Quotes
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?
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Lehi was not a part of the Zionist movement, not a part of the Revisionist Party. It was sometimes something apart, and Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East... and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target.
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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It has taken me so many years to finally be in my bed and fall asleep for six hours.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi.
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I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.
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I love our country so much. And we should all love and respect each other because this is the greatest country in the world. I see the love. I see the unity in all walks of life on a daily basis and It makes me so proud to be an American.
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We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.
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I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.
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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
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Obviously, it's bad if I couldn't return. I'll just get the MRI and see what it really is... I had problems walking, so I knew I couldn't do any running. I couldn't go. It's real swollen and sore.
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In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
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Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
