Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Anne Dudley I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Ang Lee I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alan Bennett I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Alonzo Church I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Hicks I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest. This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.
    Source: Dark Poet
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Joan Didion I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
    Source: Blue Nights (2012) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Alice Miller I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Al Pacino I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Winston Churchill I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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