Ernest Dimnet Quotes
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.
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I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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I was always interested in it when I was younger, but it was when I was at university, getting together with other like-minded theatrically inclined types, that I admitted to myself that I wanted to be an actor.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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The various creation stories of ancient time were not scientific theories in any modern sense. They did not attempt to reveal anything new about the structures of the world; they aimed simply to remove the specter of the unknown from human imaginings.
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Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
