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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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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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.
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When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
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I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
