Plato Quotes
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.
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Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
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When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.
