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Failure is a resource that can be managed,
Consult as you may your masters; their musings. But look within when it's time for the choosing.
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the ...
You don't know the protocol for any kind of anniversary.""Fuck you." Cam's mouth slanted into a smirk. "If you're gonna bitch, maybe I should just ...
Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in ...
Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? ...
In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.
Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no ...
Choice starts when we stop recognizing our conditioned patterns linked to our past. Until we are at this point, we are unconscious.
The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want ...
America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in ...
When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.
There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.
Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this ...
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
Lies can run but they can't hide
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more ...
Don't waste your time obsessing over stupid actions of stupid people
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior ...
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.
TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. ...
If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy ...
We have always had dogs, and they have faithfully performed many valuable services for us, such as: 1. Peeing on everything. 2. When we're driving ...
You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious ...
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Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to ...
I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, ...
His arms around her and pulled her
A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he ...
Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)
You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.""Insha'Allah.
The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.
You want to know the secret to raising good kids?""What's that? asked Thomas."High expectations."Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"Clyde smiled ...
It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of ...
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot ...
Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
How could a person be caught that way, in an instant, by a glance, the lift of an eyebrow, the curve of an arm? But ...
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.
I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do ...
Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the ...
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so ...
In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand.
I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.
Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of ...
It's hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who've never lived overseas, but when you're an American living in a geographically separated ...
The universe has been around for 13.8 billion years and
I'd never been part of a group like that, so it was interesting, like a National Geographic special on wolves that I might watch with ...
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it ...
I want youto undress meto the soundof all your defenses collapsing.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in ...
Maybe they're in love.""And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?""Sometines it is.
If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow ...
You can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing.
It's a universal law that if you unscrew or unbolt more than 10 parts from any machine that there is only a 3% chance that ...
Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
Revelation, which is often associated with the end of things, also speaks of new beginnings - a new name (2:17); a new Jerusalem (3:12); a ...
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half ...
When anger is used correctly, it can have positive results!
I may be slow, but I know a racist when I'm called one - and I am proud to support the supremacy of the 100-meter ...
23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless ...
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting ...
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of ...
Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.
And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie based on these ...
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.
I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this ...
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.
Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell ...
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what ...
After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 ...
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the ENEMY - the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors - rather than ...
I was only 24 years old when a lady called Sabina Sehgal Saikia - the then 'Delhi Times' editor - asked me to host the ...
Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
Don't depend on the thoughts; "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You ...
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
In every heart, there lives a Jack Kearns.
I've known Don Mancini for 22 years. We're dear friends. I know his humor, I know his mind.
The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
So I'm explaining intrinsic value to my 4 year old daughter - who loves toy cats - and ask her, if she was really thirsty ...
Chaos theory describes nonlinear systems. It's now become a very broad theory that's been used to study everything from the stock market to heart rhythms. ...
If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.
Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
Written words, he told me, were forever. Stories stretched beyond death, like time itself, ever changing us, but themselves, unchanged.
An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and ...
The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It's a valid critique ...
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Boy-meets-girl has always been an irreducible convention that occurs early in the telling, to be followed by the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of love.