Vernon Lee Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.
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The president has said Republicans want dirty air and dirty water.
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I just don't crave junk food.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
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What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
