Clark Gable Quotes
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
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May my living be grace to those behind me.
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