H. L. Mencken Quotes
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
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Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.
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The simplest answer is to act.
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It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
