Jack Lemmon Quotes
Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I grew up on films.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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Heavy Metal will never die!
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
