H. L. Mencken Quotes
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'
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First, you get really dizzy and you learn that you have to center, to stay in one spot.
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The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
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I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
