Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.
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Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
