Stephen Adly Guirgis Quotes

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

John Burroughs

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I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

Jeremy Piven

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I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Mel Smith

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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Amanda Palmer

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I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

Sue Townsend

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I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

Rutger Hauer

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I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Chris Martin

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Glamour is really fun.

Annette Bening

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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Arthur Smith

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My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

Wong Kar-wai

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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

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I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.

Tyra Banks

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