Erich von Stroheim Quotes
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.
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People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
