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An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#assurance #been #exposes #himself #learned

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it. ↗

— Kevin James

#always #chubby #gets #i #i do

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i

One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#age #any #become #change #choose

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#appropriate #bank #central #central bank #chance

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#about #attention #experience #habit #other

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. ↗

— Ian Botham

#competing #cricket #enjoy #good #how

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#city #different #different kinds #exposed #fast

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#act #after #before #civil #civil rights