Uta Hagen Quotes
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
