Ovid Quotes
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
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The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
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We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
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I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
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I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.
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So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
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When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
