I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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