J. B. Priestley Quotes
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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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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Nothing ever goes away.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
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The Wall will stand for a hundred years.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
