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  • Janet Frame Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Affleck Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bobby Sherman Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Bill Simmons You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Billy Koch You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
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  • Brendan Gleeson You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Springsteen You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Boris Vallejo You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
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  • Bob Kahn You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
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  • Caroline Rhea You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Ben Horowitz You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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