W. C. Fields Quotes
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I'm insatiably curious.
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Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
