Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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Usually we have pick-up shots to film after all the main work is done; sometimes we even do them after our wrap party. Just like when you're packing up and moving, it's the little things that end up taking the most time, and there is no romance in the clean up.
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When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.
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That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
