Joe Mantegna Quotes
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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I'm somewhat in my own cloud.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
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There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
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In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that's impossible; you just don't meet everyone in the world.
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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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Play the game, but don't believe in it.
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I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.
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I feel terrific.
Charles B. Rangel
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
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I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.
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I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
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Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
