Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I would like to direct.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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To survive is to win.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.
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The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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My routine is similar to that of a nomad. But I crave for the comforts enjoyed by a normal girl. In fact, while shooting for my debut film, 'Sanam Teri Kasam,' I turned my vanity van into my room.
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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
