Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 2349.
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The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
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The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
Source: Fall On Your Knees (2011) 358 -
The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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