Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • Brandi Carlile My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Ben Affleck My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Burt Reynolds My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
    Burt Reynolds
     
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ben Barnes My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Adam Sandler My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bitsie Tulloch My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Bob Diamond My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Novalis My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Barry Diller My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Claiborne Pell My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
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  • James Thurber My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Source: Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • George Eliot My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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