Uta Hagen Quotes
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Old answers never perfectly suit new questions, except in the most formal, logical circumstances.
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I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.
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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.