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I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. ...

Never turn your back on government.

A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests ...

We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I ...

I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland.

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and ...

Besides, how would she have gotten him to fall in? Throw a carpet over it and stand on the other side? That only worked in ...

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.

The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like ...

If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at ...

Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?

I know he didn't mean to be popularto have everyone string along behind him like the tail of a kite.

Whenever you feel low, think of someone who is inspired by you. The low will turn to high.

Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will ...

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into ...

You mean when we discovered the secret lair under the hangar where I'd been kept comatose for eight years of my life, then turned into ...

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you ...

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its ...

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful ... And their feet and ankles are the most ...

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it ...

Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us ...

Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for ...

The greatest struggle in my life is between a dignified silence and having my say

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Changmin teases me so much ... it's to the point that it feels strange when he doesn't.

So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of ...

The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

He cupped her head with both hands. "You're full of your own kind of magic, and it's much more rare and beautiful than all the ...

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does ...

We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.

Wear reality with grace, the alternative is awful.

Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the ...

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no ...

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Lucian stared at him, overwhelmed. "What are you all of a sudden?" he demanded gruffly. "An ancient wiseman?"Jory pointed to himself."Look at me, cousin. Did ...

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well ...

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

I want to belong to you, and I want you to belong to me.

I say 'Uhmm...' a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it's a CPU word. It means you're assembling data in your head ...

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides ...

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn ...

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise. - Eclipse, page 607

There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as ...

Tragedy makes for strange bedfellows.

It was so hard to get an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people's judgment ... Other people's ...

I realize that a lot of business leaders may disagree with me, but I truly believe that God belongs in what my company does. By ...

Your destination and destiny are uncertain, but you can create the illusion of certainty if you know the direction you are going.

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving ...

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, ...

Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.

New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'Defeated brother ...

Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the ...

What does an atheist scream when they come?

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I've been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It's an adult ...

But ne'er mind. We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

One is born to be a great dancer.

Obviously no one has ever cautioned you against pricking the vanity of proud men or wild animals; neither is completely predictable.""And which of those categories ...

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going ...

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother ...

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of ...

You can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit.

Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.

The professional will not tolerate disorder ... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her ...

All presidents get frustrated with Congress.

Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted.

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

Can you be sure?" "I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she ...

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

I looked over at her. She raised an eyebrow and quirked her lip. "Waiting, miss I don't date and yet I just jumped out of ...

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long ... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge ...

All I know is, being away from you ... makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much

You are NOT a financial failure if you rent. You are getting something for your money. A roof over your head.

We're all in this together.

Delight or enchantment (a shining kind of contentment) spiritual

Out of the mouths of babes comes only bubbles. Out of the mouths of men like me, only babble.

Philosophy is unbelievably inspiring to me.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

I put my genius into my life, not into my art.

I don't usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want ...

When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the ...

The champions are the team with the most points ... if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your ...

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

Relationships are complicated.""Not all of them. For instance, our relationship is very simple. You are annoying; I am annoyed. See? Totally uncomplicated.

We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves.