Edward Abbey Quotes
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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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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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Advocates of a tax overhaul often point to the 1986 act as a model for a comprehensive approach that ushered in a long period of economic growth.
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I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
