Edgar Wallace Quotes
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
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They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
