Uta Hagen Quotes
For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in 'Tiny Furniture.'
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This does not mean that we need treat all as equally true: it is up to individuals and groups to make up their minds. Freedom of faith allows for rich diversity of judgements as to the truth.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
