"He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing."
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"And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?"
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"That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children."
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"Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read."
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"There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one."
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"Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does."
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"Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?"
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"Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist."
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"He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet."
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"When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?"
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"Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man."
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"Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?"
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"The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others."
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"For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes."
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"Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace."
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"If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work."
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"What is essential does not die but clarifies."
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"There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation."
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"Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I was like, "You've got to come just to see people react to your [big scene]." I knew that would go well, but it's satisfying to me when he's sitting there and it actually does."
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"Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people."
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