"The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair."
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"The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life."
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"This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost."
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"My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya."
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"To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body."
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"Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly."
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"Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion."
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"The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves."
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"It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret."
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"It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing."
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"How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember."
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"The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience."
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"In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story."
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"It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility."
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"The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own."
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"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"
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"But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it."
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"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite."
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"I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth."
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"The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us."
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