Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
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What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
