Andrew Marvell Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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Good design should be honest.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.
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Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
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The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
