Edmund Randolph Quotes
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies...
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies...
