Eric Bentley Quotes
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
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There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.
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I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.
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To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
