Archilochus Quotes
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
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To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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Thoughts are like clouds in expansive span of sky. They come and float by. See it and don't be attached to it. Thoughts will simply pass on.
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πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα
