Irving Stone Quotes
The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
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The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
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'By god', says he, 'I think the Devil shits Dutchmen'
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No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.
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Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
