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Reason Quotes
"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."
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"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so."
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"The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing."
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"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
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"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."
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"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
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"But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet."
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"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."
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"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
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"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."
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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."
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"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
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"Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic."
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"The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless."
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"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
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"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground."
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"For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating."
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"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
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"Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years."
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"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
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"Reason can be used only when looking critically back."
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"I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason."
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"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct."
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"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
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"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."
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"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it."
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"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
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"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it."
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"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."
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"I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate."
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"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."
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"That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again."
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