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"I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me."
"Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it."
"In order for things to change you, you must be able to change."
"Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills."
"I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say."
"As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life."
"Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am."
"When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me."
"You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly."
"By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived."
"To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense."
"It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years."
"Every joke is either taken by ads or The Simpsons. It's all about being able to get your ideas out into the universe."
"Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast."
"I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help."
"Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves."
"You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident."
"Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed."
"As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect."
"If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract."
