Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.
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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.
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I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
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The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
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1600 Penn is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
