Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.
Jeffrey Jones
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The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.
Andrew Solomon
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May Sarton
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There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
Anna Quindlen
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My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol
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My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
Trey Parker
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When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
Mary Szybist
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And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
Luis Gutierrez
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First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.
Jason Kander
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I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.
Doris Lessing
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From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
Selman Waksman
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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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