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I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.
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There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
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To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
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I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.
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I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
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Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"
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My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'
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No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
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That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
