Cole Porter Quotes
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
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Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
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Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
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We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
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I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
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America is the paradise of lawyers.
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There is so little one can be certain of these days,” he begins, voice wobbly. “But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path.
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I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.
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I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
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Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.
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Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...
