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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After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!' And then Sasha added, 'Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.' So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.
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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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A right word is the most direct route between two minds.
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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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Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.
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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.
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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
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I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments.
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Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
