Dashiell Hammett Quotes
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
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Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.
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The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
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Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
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Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
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Whatever made you go to Paris in April?
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If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!
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Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.
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Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.
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'You got types?''Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.'
