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"I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed.""
"Everybody has a different definition of the good side."
"The lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp!"
"When you go to war, both sides lose totally."
"And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same."
"The flip side of happiness is suffering."
"I am just discovering my fashion side. I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion."
"It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man."
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
"So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire."
"A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side."
"Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason."
"Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side."
"It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo."
"-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table."
"There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance."
"Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other."
"Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to."
"For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops."
"I think it's fair to point out that there is bias in the media on both sides, both right and left. And that it's very hard to find objective news because we have gotten, particularly as you watch cable news, it's so dominated by opinion."
