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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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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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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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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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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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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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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When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.
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The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.
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All of us sing, all are equal, all bring something different to the group.
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I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.
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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
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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.
