Freddie Wong Quotes

We always said that directors work their whole lives to get final cut on a movie. We have that. So why would you want to run away from what every other director is sprinting toward their entire careers?

Freddie Wong

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I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.

John Corey Whaley

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We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

John Yoo

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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

John Ray

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Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.

Travis Fimmel

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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Russell Banks

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If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Lorrie Moore

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I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

Joshua Cohen

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Americans have discovered fear.

Jose Saramago

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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Denis Waitley

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The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.

Craig Brown

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I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

Arizona Muse

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