Lewis Carroll Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I don't drink coffee.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
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My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
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TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the concept of, well why would I want my genetic information?
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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.
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I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.
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People who don't think shouldn't talk.
