I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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