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She can not even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I do not think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one coffee and fill one pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one neighbor.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I am living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

The writing is really hard. You are alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you are a director, you are shopping - you are picking this actor, you are picking this scene. It is like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

There is this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.