H. L. Mencken Quotes
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
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The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
