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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
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When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
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