Wellington Mara Quotes
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
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Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.
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Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
