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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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
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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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We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
