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Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about.
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Goneness. It sounds like a condition because it is. It's not a blank space waiting to be filled, but a deep hole that will forever be a hole- a cruel, carved-out crater or violently dug indentation, a chasm left by something that has been removed.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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“There's no reward in life without risk.”
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
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It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. (p.46)
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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
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You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.
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I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
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I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.
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“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.”
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Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
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I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
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If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
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I always knew I wanted to be in a band.
