Aldis Hodge Quotes
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
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God will give him blood to drink!
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The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
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I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.
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You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
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I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.
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The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
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I want to have a resume that is substantial enough to hold itself as respectful.
