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I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover… — Brian De Palma
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the… — Brian De Palma
Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff. — Candy Crowley
I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little… — Fiona Apple
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let… — Frank Herbert
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth… — Sara Zarr
I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great… — Wes Anderson
Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of… — Jim Leyland
One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have… — Giovanni Falcone
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually… — David Copperfield
In a way, the great thing about Batman is that there are so many of him that you can usually find one you like. Often,… — Unknown Author
There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn… — William Herbert Sheldon
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships. — Benjamin Spock
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always… — E. M. Forster
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power,… — Frank Knight
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. — George Santayana
Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
Possessions are usually diminished by possession. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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