Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu 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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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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