Erich von Stroheim Quotes
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
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On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
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Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
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You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.
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If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much more sustainable development.
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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
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I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
