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  • Betsy Brandt For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Billy Porter For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Alexander Pope For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William James For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Cliff Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
    Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005)
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Eileen Stukane For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much - anticipated vacation.
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Marguerite Duras For that's what a woman, a mother wants to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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