I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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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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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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