Lord Byron Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Everything can be satirized.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
