W. C. Fields Quotes
So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
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It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.
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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
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So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.
