H. L. Mencken Quotes
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.
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I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.
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Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime.
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I know I get a real kick, an emotional charge, out of playing a song I haven't played for 10 years. It just takes you back to that point in your life.
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The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
