Ernest Hemingway Quotes
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
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What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
