Max Beerbohm Quotes
He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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If I began today, I would certainly remember that by becoming a movie actress one automatically becomes vulnerable in the matter of gossip.
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I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.
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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
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I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
