Whit Stillman Quotes

Really, having a show freely available online is like having your book in the library. It's wonderful; it's ideal.

Whit Stillman

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Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

Jesse Ball

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I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

Melvyn Bragg

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As far as characters that are written as Muslims, we're only seeing one dimension. It's either the good Muslim who is helping the FBI, or the taxi driver-terrorist bundled in one.

Maysoon Zayid

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The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

John Hewson

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We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

Jean Nidetch

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My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Alva Myrdal

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I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks.

Sia

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I'll always be an actor first. I grew up doing musical theater, so music and acting, to me, have always gone hand in hand. I'm going to be an actor first because it's my career, but music will always be a part of me.

Jon Huertas

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Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

Douglas Tompkins

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I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

Bonnie Hammer

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Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

Sylvia Plath

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