Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I enjoy my life.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
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Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
