John Barrymore Quotes
Don't worry. For a man who has been dead for fifteen years I am in remarkable health. Love. Mr. Barrymore.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
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It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
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Honestly, I don't shop in L.A. very much - it's mostly in New York or when I'm away on trips.
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Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.
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When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.
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Don't worry. For a man who has been dead for fifteen years I am in remarkable health. Love. Mr. Barrymore.
