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• I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Working
  • Director

• Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Been
  • Average
  • Months

• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Years
  • Vanity

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Rich

• I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!

  

  Becki Newton
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Important
  • Live
  • Political

• You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Plan

• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

  Walter Crane
  • Designer
  • Staff
  • Lean

• It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Forces

• Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Present

• Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Real
  • Moon

• I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

  

  Peter Pace
  • Country
  • Constitution

• But achieving a sense of inner peace is real. It's out there. You just have to be willing to walk past the darkness, and even past the light, to find it.

  

  Hannah Hart
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Darkness

• I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Impression

• Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Attention
  • Agree
  • Temperament

• I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Now
  • Inspire

• Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

  

  Diane Ackerman
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