Nelson Algren Quotes
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.
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If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.
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I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say.
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it.
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
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Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
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To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
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Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
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It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
