Mark Twain Quotes
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life.
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There is the cult of the actor and of the director, and there's even been the cult of the celebrity chef and gardener, but there has never been a cult of the screenwriter. But I'm happy about that because what I crave - in a completely venal way - is creative opportunities, not recognition.
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In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
