Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
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We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins
