H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
