Deborah Kaplan Quotes
To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film "Josie and the Pussycats", and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I'll say anything to live.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
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Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
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I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.
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I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
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I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.
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I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!
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I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.
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Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
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Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
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To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film "Josie and the Pussycats", and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
