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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. ↗

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#anything #artist #felt #had #hits

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#centers #constituents #day #each #every

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#better off #care #conventional #conventional wisdom #enough

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#convention #fool #greatest #man #misfortune

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? ↗

— Charles Schumer

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One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#convention #democrats #lies #movies #should

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. ↗

— Walter Scott

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