Bernard DeVoto Quotes
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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I will run against anybody.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I didn't start playing drums until I was 12, for school band; they didn't have any saxophones left. My step-pops had a kit at the house, and I had never done anything that I understood so quick. It was so natural. It was the most fun and consistent thing in my life.
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When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male chaperone. The greatest moment was when that ended.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
