Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes
Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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«And the European one?»
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
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I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
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I am thankful to those who've listened to my story over and over as well as those who've helped me share it. For me, the act of storytelling is an act of healing.
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I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion.
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I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.
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Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.
