Livy Quotes
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
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Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'
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Never post boring back-to-back selfies.
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I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.
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I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.
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I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
