Phil Ochs Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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We all have to make choices in life.
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology at Stanford and Harvard, and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.
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I love L.A. You definitely can't beat the weather, and being close to the beach is nice. It's a good town.
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There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.
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I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
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The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
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When I was really young, I got moonstruck by Moonstruck.
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
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I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops.
