Alexander Pope Quotes
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
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But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
