Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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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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To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
