"My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time."
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"The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions."
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"Here at last is the thing I was made for."
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"If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards."
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"As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers."
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"I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever"
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"The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him."
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"Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason."
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"Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting."
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"I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath."
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"If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect."
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"The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it"
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"Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever."
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"A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_."
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"I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts."
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"You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time."
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"Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead."
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"The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck."
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"What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel."
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