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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

America Just Light Missile
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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Nature can do more than physicians.
More Nature Physicians Than
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Back Because Every Faith
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Arm Blood Cinema Cut
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Always Basically Because Good
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
After Before Breakfast Ends
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Am I Am Man Money
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Bad Good Heart Memory
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Always Good Good Marriage Happiness
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Ever Free Interpretation Less
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Crave Grips Hits Idea
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I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Always Being Interested Never
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
About Anything Delusional Life
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Ever Known Life Like
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Clothing Colors Express Extension
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When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

About Delusional Enough Important
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When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Air Clark Daily Fly
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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Be Happy Before Being Being Selfish
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When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
Bad Neighborhood Poodle Side
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If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Anything Better Building Doing
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Because History Like Loved
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I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

Although Back Bush Clinton
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Actor Applied Basically Everything
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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Backward Enough Going Just
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I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

Calendar Figure Life Live
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

City Evening Eye Glass
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If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Buy Likes Need Selling
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I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

Always Become Been Mature
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Accumulate Anything Appetite Down
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The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Biggest Divorce Financial Life
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Die Enough Everything God
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Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

About Any Calories Days
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Answer Ask Correction Disorder
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Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

Ability Am Being Between
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

Begging Believe Bit Get
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I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Assistant Bodyguard Class Economy
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Attention Directed Greater Lesser
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