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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Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.
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I've been a freelancer my whole life. It's sort of been my ethos that wherever something takes me, it takes me, so, that was really the start of me trying my hand at whatever it was at the time. I've gone from doing sculpture to videos to being a set builder and working for a general contractor to jewelry maker to now, a rapper... I just love to create. I've had a stint doing pretty much everything! It sort of doesn't matter what it is, as long as I'm doing it. I love to see something from conception to final product. I love trying new things and seeing them through.
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no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.
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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.