"The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made."
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"When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound."
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"Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody."
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"Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches."
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"Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back."
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"Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar."
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"To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets."
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"Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air."
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"O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?"
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"The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad."
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"Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity."
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"A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand."
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"The early worm deserves the bird."
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"Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest."
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"I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous."
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"Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird."
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"For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart."
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"You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment."
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"The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything."
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"I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go."
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