H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.
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A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees.
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People wanted to know me. Now they do.
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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
