Steven Wright Quotes

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Steven Wright

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I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

Jimmy Nail

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I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

Jesse McCartney

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Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.

Andy Serkis

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I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Steve Lacy

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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

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I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

Joseph Stiglitz

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When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

Jon Scieszka

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I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.

Jonah Hill

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Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

Debbie Ford

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The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.

Pierce Brosnan

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My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Suriya

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