Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
