Mario Cuomo Quotes
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I hate competition.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
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The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
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I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.
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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
