Barack Obama Quotes
I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
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I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.
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So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.
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I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts.
