Anthony Trollope Quotes
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
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The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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One by one, like leaves from a tree, All my faiths have forsaken me.
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Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
