Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
Taylor Swift
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In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
Kai Bird
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.
Patrick Kane
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
Laura Linney
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
Viktor E. Frankl
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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
Amber Tamblyn
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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
Kevin Spacey
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Idries Shah
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
Christina Aguilera
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
Francis Bacon
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With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.
George Washington
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All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him, and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
Chogyam Trungpa
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It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.
Rachel Morrison
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Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
