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 think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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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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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.
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I was always taught that pressure comes when you aren't prepared or didn't work hard enough.
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I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.
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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
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I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
