Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.
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We believe this is a crucial next step in revealing what was improper and getting money back to shareholders who lost money.
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A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.
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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.
