Brian De Palma Quotes

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

Brian De Palma

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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Robert Smith

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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

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I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

Roscoe Mitchell

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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Roman Abramovich

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I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.

Rupert Friend

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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

Jonathan Stroud

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There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.

Boy George

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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Anthony Bourdain

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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.

Winston Duke

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Donald Trump did exactly what he said he'd do on the campaign trail and frankly what we should have more of, which is luring companies to stay here by easing regulations, by lowering the tax burden so that more Americans can have U.S. jobs.

Sean Spicer

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