H. L. Mencken Quotes
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I am a just man.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
