It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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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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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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