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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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 -
Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
