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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that."

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible."

"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out."

"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."

"Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world."

"I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me."
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