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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Pepys I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Albert Speer I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Andrew Jackson I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Simone Weil I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Philip Roth I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Bennett I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Margaret Drabble I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Bella Heathcote I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.
    Bella Heathcote
    Australian actress (1987 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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