W. C. Fields Quotes
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game.
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People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.
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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
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I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.
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During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
