If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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