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Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Ethan Coen (Ethan, with his brother Joel, are American filmmakers known professionally as the Coen brothers. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, 1957-)

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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill (British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, 1874-1965)

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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Rita Mae Brown (American writer, 1944-)

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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Anna Freud (alongside Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology, 1895-1982)

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Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher von Braun (German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and the United States during and after World War II, 1912-1977)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright, 1564-1616)

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Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi (Indian political and ideological leader, 1869-1948)

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart (American aviation pioneer and author, 1897-1937)

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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist (pastor of the Hollywood Presbyterian Church in Hollywood, California, for many years)

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Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently.

Maya Angelou (American poet, civil rights activist, dancer, producer, playwright, author, actress, professor. 1928-)

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Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway (American author and journalist whose distinctive writing style influenced 20th-century fiction, 1899-1961)

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, statesman, and literary figure, 1804-1881)

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton (U.S. Army officer, 1885-1945)

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into the air.

John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States, diplomat, and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives, 1767-1848)

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard (prolific American songwriter, principally in country music, 1927-2002)

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (American lecturer and essayist, 1803-1882)

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Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (American lecturer and essayist, 1803-1882)