W. S. Merwin Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine -
I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
Dan Marino -
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke -
You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
Gavin Newsom
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
Nate Silver -
If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
I like seeing girls throw down.
Mackenzie Foy -
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Brown Campbell -
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Dance should mean something to you.
Damian Woetzel
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
Quavo Migos -
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel -
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
Tahl Raz -
I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
Caleb Johnson -
Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
Eddie Marsan -
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
Ted Nugent
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah -
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
E. L. Konigsburg -
I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
Ilya Ilyin -
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
Boris Johnson -
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
Lewis H. Lapham -
I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.
W. S. Merwin