Aesop Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
