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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
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And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.


Stephen Breyer
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.


Voltaire
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There's not ever much of anything going on in my head.


Carrie Underwood
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
Gary Lockwood
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.


Walter Bagehot
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Benjamin Tucker
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Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.


Julie London
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Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.
Selma Lagerlof
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
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I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.


Kevin Shelley
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin Scalia
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David
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I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.


Jennifer Aniston
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I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
J. C. Chandor
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Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.
Srikumar Rao
I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.
Brantley Gilbert
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frederic Bastiat
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