Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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In my 27 years of calling games for ESPN, I have never ever seen a player take more verbal abuse than he has taken.
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.
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Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.
