I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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