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• I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

  Alexander Payne

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• I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

  Henry Paulson

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• I came from rather humble beginnings.

  Teresa Palmer

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• Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers’ happiness – or what management types refer to as ’employee satisfaction results’ – might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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• To me, the world’s rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

  David Hockney

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• I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

  Joanne Harris

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• I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

  Richard P. Feynman

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• I’d rather die tomorrow than to live a hundred years without knowing you.

  Unknown

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• When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that ‘civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.’ The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

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• I’d rather make music than tour.

  Bob Seger

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• But I’d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don’t know what we’re seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

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• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

  John Sexton

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• What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

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• Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

  Alice Sebold

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• With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

  Dylan McDermott

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• I mean, I always think when you’re an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

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• Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

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