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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot -- Guillermo del Toro
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. -- Guillermo del Toro
Good ideas are the backbone of good government. -- Brian Schweitzer
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be. -- Clementine Paddleford
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. -- Tom Allen
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. -- Reba McEntire
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. -- William J. H. Boetcker
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40. -- Kobe Bryant
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything? -- Jennifer Granholm
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. -- Sue Kelly
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy. -- Ruben Hinojosa
A drummer is usually like the backbone. -- Brody Dalle
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. -- John Perry Barlow
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. -- Guillermo del Toro
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. -- Thomas Guthrie
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations. -- Trent Lott
I won't die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. -- John Salazar
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy. -- Debbie Stabenow
By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well. -- John Salazar
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. -- Rick Boucher
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. -- Dick Wolf
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. -- Anne Tyler
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. -- Ida B. Wells
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. -- John Oliver
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. -- Lucy Powell
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated. -- Michele Bachmann
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. -- Saxby Chambliss
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me. -- Aerin Lauder
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. -- Bill Rancic
Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back. -- Mark Sanford
My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times. -- Bear Grylls
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption. -- Bryan Cranston
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? -- Terry Pratchett
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before. -- Jeremy Grantham
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ceremony is all backbone. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
My Christian faith is my backbone -- Bear Grylls
Self-possession is the backbone of authority. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Get a backbone, not a wishbone, -- Caroline Myss
I have the backbone of an eel. -- Betty White
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. -- Kenny Guinn
The wishbone will never replace the backbone. -- Henry Wilson Allen
The wishbone will never replace the backbone -- Will Henry
Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy. -- Kenny Guinn
Put your backbone where your wishbone is. -- Vikram Seth
We need a backbone, not a wishbone. -- Joyce Meyer
A vocation is the backbone of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. -- Ellen Tauscher
The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought. -- Nick Price
Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. -- Owen Jones
Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class. -- Mark Pocan
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone. -- Bob Barr
Get you a backbone Stop being sorry for yourself! -- Lyfe Jennings
McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt
You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone. -- Caroline Myss
Toughness is not being a bully, it's having a backbone. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one. -- Chaka Khan
Mutual understanding is the main backbone of every happy relationship. -- Edmond Mbiaka
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone. -- Patrick Wilson
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. -- Franz Kafka
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone. -- John Diefenbaker
The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence. -- Mia Hamm
A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased. -- Edwin Lutyens
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. -- Virginia Woolf
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character. -- Confucius
The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song. -- Patty Schemel
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families. -- Shia LaBeouf
Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through. -- Horatio Nelson
It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe. -- Deval Patrick
The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ. -- Charles Spurgeon
My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them. -- David Cook
Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone. -- Charlie Brooker
Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone. -- Swami Vivekananda
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism. -- Ludwig von Mises
Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone? -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. -- Maya Angelou
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. -- Ronald Reagan
I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. -- Alex Sink
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. -- Henry Rollins
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. -- Warren Buffett
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. -- Tommy Douglas
If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career -- Kate Winslet
It's hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. -- Natalia Makarova
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders? -- Bear Grylls
I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone. -- Elle King
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. -- Mike Easley
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. -- Mike Easley
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. -- B. C. Forbes
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. -- John Piper
If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making. -- Lily Collins
I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation. -- Bill Pullman
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants. -- Emeril Lagasse
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! -- Rudyard Kipling
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever. -- Alan Jackson
You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone. -- Nat Hentoff
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis. -- William Osler
We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it. -- Adam McKay
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. -- Trey Gowdy
It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed. -- Henry Rollins
I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone. -- Mitt Romney
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s. -- Anthony Foxx
America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country. -- Troy Polamalu
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. -- Kara DioGuardi
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can. -- Evelyn Underhill
I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful. -- Lee Daniels
Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will. -- Sherry Argov
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. -- Natalia Makarova
[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore. -- Andrew Sullivan
I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of. -- Tom Douglas
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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