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  • Bill Conti In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Michael Ondaatje In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 25
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • John Millington Synge In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Cassandra Clare In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Judy Garland In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Lao-Tzu In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • A. N. Wilson In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Billy Tauzin Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Mae West It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bode Miller It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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