When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.
Patrick Marber
Recitation: by Male by Female
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Michael J. Fox
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I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
TruthChallengeEnoughLongFind
Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.
Steven Hatfill
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Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
Rose George
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If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.
Martin Rees
GodScienceSchoolYouChooseLost
Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
Michael Keaton
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It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
Mitski
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I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.
Jonathan Dimbleby
JoyYouEdgeKnowNeverCorner
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
Dennis Miller
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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
Derek Walcott
CultureKnowMadeCities
I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
Brittany Snow
BeautyYourselfLovedYouLookRole
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
Bruce Beresford
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