Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
