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The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Source: Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014) -
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
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There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
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There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
Source: Out of Sight (1996)
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