Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.
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Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.
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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
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When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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The year is dying in the night.
