Blake Edwards Quotes
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
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When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I have had to do most of my choreography. I would say most of it, with help from various choreographers I have worked with.
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Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
