John Barrymore Quotes
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.
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The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
