Neil Sedaka Quotes
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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You never know what the future brings.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
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I used to think the whole world was Jewish.
