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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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
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We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.
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I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.
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The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
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We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.
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Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
