Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
Olivia Thirlby
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Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
Barbara Boxer
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
Patricia Sun
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson
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It is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitely varied mass, of which the rest of the universe is composed, and which ceases to exist as soon as those parts change their position with regard to each other.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
Crystal Lowe
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The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
Tom Hardy
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One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.
Barack Obama
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
Florence Scovel Shinn
