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While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

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• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Me

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Past
  • Me
  • Joy

• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Country
  • Maybe
  • Month

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Parent

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • History
  • Law
  • Fact

• If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

  

  Dan Malloy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Best

• I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Evil

• If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Wife

• I'm like a junkie for writing.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Writing
  • Like

• Marriage is a wonderful thing.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Marriage
  • Thing
  • Wonderful

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.....

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Die

• I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.

  

  Marc Platt
  • People
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • House
  • Books
  • Furniture

• If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • See
  • Thing
  • Price

• While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

  

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