Vanity Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.
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If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
