Plautus Quotes
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
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I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.
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You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.
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I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.
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My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
