Aristophanes Quotes
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I don't judge my characters.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.
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The father threw up on the ground. In the vomit, there were errors--strings not vomit, but language, light. The bunched up bits were writing something, words at once sunk into the ground.
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If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.
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I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.
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The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.
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I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
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Chremylus: Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
