I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.
Miranda Lambert
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Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
Jerry Saltz
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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
John Huston
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I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs.
Matthew Ramsey
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People are afraid of everything.
Jean-Francois Cope
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
Mickey Gilley
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In January of 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within a year's time, vowing to continue to fight terror but 'in a manner that is consistent with our values and ideals.' A plan was considered to move a number of detainees to stateside prisons in order to have them stand trial in civilian court.
Michael Paterniti
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People read me but they don't subscribe.
Jay London
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Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
Clarke Peters
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
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There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
Arundhati Roy
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
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