Augustus Quotes
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
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No matter what is happening in your life, you always offer tea.
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Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
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I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
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I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
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It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.
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I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.
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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
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Everyone wants to feel like they were the one and only person that the other person could ever fall in love with.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.
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Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.
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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
