Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

Author: Lynn Shelton

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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of brea

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I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harv

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To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human bei

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Philosophy is the song of conscience and music the of thoughts.

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Have the best course for all your actions.

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A website without SEO is like a car with no gas

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As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminis

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly h

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Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.

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I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less e

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People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "c

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Love an enemy with unconditional trust.Reveal his treasure to him without any thrust.

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Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have n

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I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom

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Had I known how sweet they wereI would have saved more of these memories

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If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reactio

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

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Here! Turn left, I know a short cut through Barons Court."We spend the next twenty minutes mired in

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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.

Author: William Shakespeare
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Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing.

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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good le

Author: Ben Carson
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I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant.

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Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

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A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.

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I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious

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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you not

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I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

Author: Rob Kardashian
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No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

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We all change, when you think about it. We are all different people, all through our lives.And that'

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You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

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Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the

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Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a

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This is two romantic things in a row, so I figure I should praise him accordingly, because the boy r

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Becoming excellent at want, helps raises your confidence and develops your courage. Most of all, it

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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go

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I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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Now the moon of the Aztecs is at the zenith, and all the world lies still. Full and white, the white

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In America, when a man walks in front of a woman it may imply that they are not equals and he is exe

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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you t

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Wasted laughter. Wasted tears. Wasted love. That's how badly you felt. And yet, is love ever truly w

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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We

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Here we will see that pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to

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If you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. Without a dream you cannot have an aim and withou

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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
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Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newbor

Author: George R.R. Martin
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Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

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Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

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REFLECTIONS OF TRUTHWhere you find TruthIs where you find your reflectionAnd where you find your ref

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Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

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The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one’s self for the benefit of others. Love you

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Through the screen door I find all three of my boys throwing a ball around the yard with Cooper. My

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The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness

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Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

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Self determination is greatest will power.

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I don't care that you are not a young twink. I like to think that I'm picking you at your peak.

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Confronting a liar makes a better liar.

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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w

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I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

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Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the

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And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness,

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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any

Author: Louisa May Alcott
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Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

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All Ways listen to strangers; They may tell you when a spider is on your shoulder." donnie harold ha

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He spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the ti

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to

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To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.

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Phase two of Operation Fish and CHIPs (Clean House of the Idiot Piranhas)

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Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there i

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Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of the

Author: Gene Weingarten
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Don't blame my heart's appetite for how it chooses to feast, for my heart is a wild lover, an all-co

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Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a life

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If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained...when you feel like dep

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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

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I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes. The trolls. Back. With me. Cannot form. Complete sen

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I have come to the conclusion that women believe marriage is proof that they have worth. It is the u

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Be safe on this wicked night.

Author: Sandy DeLuca
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I am so thankful for God’s mercy, grace, and patience for all the times I fell into sin. I am so gra

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I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling.

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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor

Author: Eckhart Tolle
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good

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Life is more Easy with a Little Hope and Big Dreams.

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If there's—one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing '

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‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclin

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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to

Author: Michel de Montaigne
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If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--an

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Jack, I’m just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me.”“Dee—”"I’m not kidding, not

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All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.

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The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from

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They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what h

Author: Richard Wagamese
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You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them t

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We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like

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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid fo

Author: Mitch McConnell
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People take worship (bhakti) into the relative plane. They consider singing religious songs as worsh

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

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You're the best," Rachel cheered. Her hands drifted to his chest and started tugging at the top butt

Author: Liberty Stone
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The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,

Author: Rick Riordan