- Instructions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious Quotes
When something finally demands to be taken seriously.
These serious quotes call for treating education with the urgency it deserves, note how seriously an injury can threaten a team's season, and weigh in on the long-running debate over whether studying the classics is a waste of time. It's a page about what people insist actually matters. See Life for more on priorities.
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- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
- Deflation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020