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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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  • Ben Hecht In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Caitlin Moran In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Blake McIver Ewing In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Toni Morrison In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • A. J. Liebling Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
    Source: The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Barry Sanders Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • William Blake Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Thaddeus Golas Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brendan Behan Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
    Source: First Inaugural Address (1861)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Woody Allen Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • George Eliot Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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