George Stillman Hillard Quotes
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.
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What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
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People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.
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I love making each record sound different.
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The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
