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" I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. "

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

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I never really looked at myself as a scorer, but if the shot is there, I'm certainly going to take it.

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I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

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Faith is not contrary to reason.

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So you see, movies are really another dimension.

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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

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I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

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I loved working with kids because the energy is great.

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They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

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I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

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There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

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I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

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I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

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I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

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Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

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Marriage is wonderful.

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It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

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Commitment is an act, not a word.

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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

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You reach a point where you don't work for money.

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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

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I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

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I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

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I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

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I enjoy being characters rather than myself.

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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

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