Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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You have to be yourself.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I've relapsed or if I'm doing okay, I don't think about my company. I'm proud of everything we've done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I'm still a wife, a mom, a sister - all of those things.
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I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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You kind of live and die by the serve.
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Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.
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You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
