Anthony Trollope Quotes
An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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I've never been in trouble with the police.
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What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
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'Jersey Boys' has been the most amazing experience ever and has exposed an entire new audience to the music. It's great to see people of all ages coming to the show.
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An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
