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 war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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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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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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Whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.
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I like my whisky old and my women young.
