Whit Stillman Quotes

My whole career, only one person has stepped up to back me. All these people say they like your films. They say this and they say that, but no one actually does anything.

Whit Stillman

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Didn't get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Jocko Willink

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I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

Sonny Perdue

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I'm personally attracted to great writing - that's what turns me on the most.

Michael Mando

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My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

Misty Copeland

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Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Douglas Wilder

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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Bob Geldof

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Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

Brion James

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I like being married. It's an institution that I like.

Aretha Franklin

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In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

Wole Soyinka

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

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In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

Lysander Spooner

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When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Lev Yilmaz

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