Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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