Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
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It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
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I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
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A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
