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• America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

  Andrew Garfield

  Kids, Thinking, Land

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Parks, Hospitals

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us "it can't be done" or "there is only so much you can do." We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Stars, Astonishment, Skeptical

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.

  Markus Zusak

  Teacher, Book, Writing

  Source: estellabooks.blogspot.com

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• Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Art, Years, Magic

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• I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Journey, Ends

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• f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

  Alan Bennett

  Lines, Guinness, Instance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

  Alan Bennett

  School, Boys, Oxford

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

  Brittany Murphy

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.

  Peter Jackson

  Dragons, Chinese, Fans

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Likes And Dislikes, Mind, Chariots

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• To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Ideas, Lasts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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• Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

  Mother Angelica

  Pain, Eye, Suffering

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

  Tertullian

  Differences, Prevention, Birth

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• It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Prayer, Men, Leader

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• ... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Giving, Innovation

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• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Generosity, Trying

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.25, Oxford University Press

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• I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

  Steve Irwin

  Kids, Cake, Pieces

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• A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Stoic, Epicurean

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• The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

  W. H. Auden

  Language, Poet

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• We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Live Life, Names, Culture

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