H. L. Mencken Quotes
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.
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Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
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While yonder, wild and blue,the wild blue yonder looms.'Till we are wracked with rheum,by roads, by songs entombed.
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
