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8803 Writer Quotes

The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Chill Feel Gnaws Present
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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.

Morning Life Stupidity
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From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

Much Self-destroyed Self-thinking Thoughts
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.

Love Cowardice Betrayal Ourselves
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

Life Little I Denied
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Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Made Film Cinemas Love-affair
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Build Large Scale Intense
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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Everything Personal Made Movie
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Art depends on luck and talent.

Art Depend Luck Talent
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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Really Have Courageous Instincts
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Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
Critics Stimulating Realize Better
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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Film Ready Able Make
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To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Make Great Element Well
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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Remembered Really Like Children
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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Disappointing Legs Strong Idea
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My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Goal Life Figure Money
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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
More Vivid Imagination Talent
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Deadly Rather Death Self
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Death Desired Hurts Lover
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Child Father Knows Own
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Heaven One Love Makes
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Concord Fit Hath Himself
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Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Being Every Turns Wild
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Eat Fishes Little Great
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Battalions Come Single Sorrows
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Dangerous Doth Loving Most
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Kindness Looks Love Shall
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Covetousness Desire Having Sin
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Law Make Wills They
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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

After Desert Every Man
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Badge Mercy Sweet True
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Company Himself Most Out
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Lender Borrower Neither Nor
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

After Bones Evil Good
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Desire Many Years Outlive
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Answer Bound Please Thee
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My pride fell with my fortunes.

Fell Fortunes Pride
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I will praise any man that will praise me.

Any Man Praise Will
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Now Prepare Shed Tears
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Grain Grow Look Seeds
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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Never Sloppy People Money
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We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Things Good Reasons Bad
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Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
Filmmakers Afford Work
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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Dependent Business Living Movies
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It takes no imagination to live within your means.
Takes Imagination Means
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I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Used You Love Local
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As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

Make Money Business Subsidize
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Listen Rule Learned Business
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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Number Images Certain Beyond
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