Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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