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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

  Graham Chapman

  Death, Rest In Peace, Would Be

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Escaping, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Rain, Wind, Tea

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• Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

  John Muir

  Adventure, People, Ignorant

  John Muir (2012). “Travels in Alaska”, p.225, The Floating Press

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• I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Giving, Done, Give Me Strength

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.364, Penguin

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• But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Past

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

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• Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Looks, Problem

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• Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

  Martin Scorsese

  Battle, Film, Structure

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Directors; Woody Allen; Martin Scorsese". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

  Adam Savage

  Stars, War, Light

  "Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 08, 2008.

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• I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

  Brett Favre

  Player, Thinking, Differences

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• I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Average, Guy

  "Clint Eastwood defends his empty-chair RNC speech", www.today.com. November 2, 2015.

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• My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Growing Up, Father, Artist

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• Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

  Ray Comfort

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, President, Speech

  "Piers Morgan Live", edition.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

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• But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

  Jane Campion

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Desire, Different

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• I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Film

  "Kathryn Bigelow makes history as first woman to win best director Oscar". Article by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.28, CUA Press

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  Ina Garten

  Tools, Pasta, Overrated

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• Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Believe, Independent, Expression

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• Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

  Paul Rand

  Running, Artist, Long

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• American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

  Samantha Power

  Order, Long, Justice

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