H. L. Mencken Quotes
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.
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Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
