Lee Hall Quotes

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Lee Hall

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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.

Jim Sturgess

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I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

Jenifer Lewis

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In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.

Jed S. Rakoff

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Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Steve Erickson

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Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Roy Barnes

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I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

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I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

Miranda Kerr

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God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Djimon Hounsou

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I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.

Debra Granik

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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Bodhidharma

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It's very easy for the candidates to talk about how conservative they are, how conservative they will be.

Phil Gingrey

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