D. W. Griffith Quotes
I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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I'd probably get a much quicker and better result if I went to a really great guitar player for a certain style of guitar that I have a problem doing. But there is a challenge in figuring out if I can do that myself.
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I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
