Ernest Hemingway Quotes
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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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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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I think celebrities suck.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
