Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
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I am just an ordinary Catholic.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'
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I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
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It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
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Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.
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I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.
