Before the Rain - Winner of the Grand Prix of the Venice Film Festival and an Oscar nominee in 1995.
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I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
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When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
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He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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The better part of valor is discretion.
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The average person thinks he isn't.
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-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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