Errol Flynn Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
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All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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He's playing on one leg. We're a banged-up team, a young team. Our backs are to the wall a little bit in this league.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
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I like my whisky old and my women young.
