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In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.

Michael Korda

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I'm spiritual.

Jessica Simpson

Spiritual

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

GoodBestBetterFriendsYouYour

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MotivationalEnoughKnowingMust

I was a huge Internet junkie.

Andy Milonakis

InternetHuge

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Andy Murray

FailureFearReachYouKnowingOut

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

Ruth Rendell

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My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Mike Leigh

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'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie - from the director to the writing the cast.

Cory Hardrict

WorkGreatTogetherWritingBetter

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

Chubby Checker

FlowersAliveWantWhile

For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or another. They only care about it insofar as they can use it to manipulate a German sense of guilt.

Timothy D. Snyder

CareGuiltHolocaustWayEmotional

Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.

Norman Borlaug

PowerAnimalSicknessToolsHand

With 'Torches,' I wanted to make a great pop record; I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no long pieces of music without vocals. I kind of wanted to write the perfect pop album.

Mark Foster

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